VMware Horizon View High Availability

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作者	Andrew Alloway
出版社	Packt Publishing
ISBN	9781785286490
出版时间	2015-11-20
字数	78.0万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,电脑,网络

读书简介

Design, develop and deploy a highly available vSphere environment for VMware Horizon View About This Book Enhance your capability of meeting various Service Level Agreements in VMware Horizon View Get acquainted through all the necessary considerations for building a View environment Cover VMware High Availability hurdle by hurdle along with the checklists for verification of the environment being ready for production Who This Book Is For If you manage, plan or deploy VMware Horizon View or are looking for tips for best practices and configuration details this book is for you. This book is intended for administrators who design and deploy VMware Horizon View or administrators who are looking for ways to improve their existing View environment. What You Will Learn Install and configure a VMware Horizon View Connection Server and redundant pair Discover the networking requirements for View and learn how to build redundancy into your network Analyze each of the View user pool types and how each one can be made highly available and survivable. Get to know about storage protocols such as NFS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel Deploy Virtual SAN, and find out how to effectively couple Virtual SAN with View Learn about View monitoring tools to allow fast responses to various crises Plan, analyze and upgrade VMware Horizon View Analyze network services required for VMware Horizon View and build them in a redundant manner In Detail The increasing movement to virtualize workloads and workstations has put VMware Horizon View into a central mission critical role in many environments. Administrators may be overwhelmed with planning for outages and dealing with failure scenarios. It’s easy to miss small details that will result in outages down the road. Following VMware Horizon View best practices and planning ahead with network infrastructure will allow you to avoid these common pit falls. This book will walk you through the setup and configuration of View in a highly available configuration. It will provide you with the skills to analyze and deploy configurations that can stand up to rigorous failure standards. The book starts with deploying and basic configuration of VMware Horizon View in a redundant setup, then moves on to cover high availability for networking, fibre channel, NFS, and iSCSI. We finish this book with monitoring and upgrade planning. At the end we also learn about maintaining the uptime and minimizing the downtime that can be caused due to various factors. Each topic comes with a list of best practices and failure scenarios to test. Administrators will learn the intricacies of protecting a View environment. Style and approach This book provides configuration and installation steps for administration and installation of a Horizon View server. It includes high-level overviews of any protocols, services used by Horizon View, and best practices and high availability checklists for each chapter.

目录

VMware Horizon View High Availability

Table of Contents

VMware Horizon View High Availability

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Free access for Packt account holders

Instant updates on new Packt books

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. VMware Horizon View 6.0 Connection Server HA

Licensing Horizon View

Database considerations for Horizon View

Functions of the vCenter server

High Availability deployment scenarios for vCenter

Small deployments

Medium-to-large deployments

Shared storage deployments

Functions of the View Composer

High Availability considerations for View Composer

Co-locating the View Composer with vCenter considerations

Installation of the View Composer 6.0

Functions of the View Connection servers

Installation of View Connection Server 6.0

Installing the View Standard server

Installing the View Replica Server

Configuring the View Connection servers

Network services HA

Configuring DNS

Configuring certificates for the View Connection servers

Configuring VMware vCenter High Availability & DRS rules

Configuring VM startup/shutdown rules

Failure testing checklist

Summary

2. VMware View 6.0 Security Server HA

Functions of the View Security server

Firewall and DNS requirements of the View Security server

High Availability planning for the View Security server

Installing the View Security server

Prerequisites

Installation

HA DRS and power

Two or more ESXi hosts with shared storage

Four or more ESXi hosts with shared storage

Two or more ESXi hosts with local storage

Four or more ESXi hosts with local storage

Power on

View Security server failure checklist

Summary

3. Load Balancers and Deployment Planning

Ports used for load balancing

DNS load balancing

Windows Network Load Balancing

Software or hardware load balancing

High Availability and failure planning

DNS round robin with internal-only clients

Windows load balancing with internal-only clients

Scenarios in software or hardware load balancing

DNS round robin for View security servers with external clients

Windows load balancing for View security servers with external clients

Software or hardware load balancers for View security servers with external clients

References

Summary

4. HA Planning for Floating and Dedicated Pools

An overview of pools

Stateless desktops

Stateful desktops

Dedicated pools

HA considerations for dedicated pools

Floating pools

HA considerations for floating pools

Manual pools

HA considerations for manual pools

Remote Desktop Services pools

Remote desktop services pool HA considerations

High Availability checklist

Summary

5. Storage HA with VMware Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics

Virtual SAN for VMware Horizon View

Components

Virtual SAN cache mechanics

Virtual SAN requirements and limitations

Virtual SAN sizing

CPU requirements

SSD requirements

Hard drive requirements

Network requirements

Blade servers

Rack servers

Virtual SAN installation

Assign a license key to the Virtual SAN cluster

Add a drive into a Virtual SAN

Remove a drive from a Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN features and best practices

Virtual SAN hardware best practices

Virtual SAN maintenance mode

Virtual SAN storage policy management

Storage policies for VMware Horizon View

Multiple host failures and quorum

Admission control

High Availability checklist

Summary

6. Hardware Redundancy Planning for Fibre Channel Storage

Fibre Channel concepts and definitions

Fibre Channel layers

Fibre Channel ports

Node ports

Fibre Channel port attributes

Fibre Channel zoning

VMFS and Fibre Channel workflow

Fibre Channel storage arrays

Single controller storage arrays

Dual controller storage arrays

Fibre Channel and SAN requirements for VMware ESXi

ESXi Fibre Channel and SAN restrictions

Planning for High Availability

Planning for High Availability with Fibre Channel switches

Planning for high availability with P2P Fibre Channel

Multipathing and managing Fibre Channel from within VMware vSphere Web Client

Fibre Channel checklist

Fibre Channel High Availability checklist

Summary

7. NFS, iSCSI, and Network Planning

Active Directory

DNS

Active Directory-integrated DNS servers

DHCP

DHCP High Availability

Network High Availability

Switching

Storage High Availability

VMware vSphere ESXi

VMkernel configuration

NFS

NFS third-party features

Deduplication

Backups and snapshots on NFS

NFS High Availability

iSCSI

iSCSI concepts

iSCSI High Availability

Failure testing checklist

Summary

8. Monitoring VMware Horizon View

Monitoring the View connection servers

View Event database

Monitoring the VMware vCenter server

Monitoring tools available

Horizon View Event Viewer

RVTools

PCoIP Session Statistics Viewer

vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon View

vRealize Operations Manager Virtual Appliance installation

vRealize Operations Manager Configuration

Install the VMware vRealize Operations View Broker Agent

Installing the vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent

vRealize Operations Manager Dashboard

Monitoring checklist

Summary

9. Upgrade and Downtime Planning

Prerequisites and common pitfalls

View Composer 6.0

View Connection Server 6.0

VMware vCenter Server 6.0 for Windows

VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Appliance

VMware Update Manager

ESXi 6.0 upgrade planning

Upgrading VMware Tools and Horizon View agent on base image

Host upgrade planning

Storage upgrade planning

Network upgrade planning

Summary

Index