The Connection Server is a core component within our Horizon View environment. Internal Access only – I spent a lot of time with the Unified Access Gateway and show you in the second blog post about how to enable access over the Internet into your Horizon Homelab.A redundant Load Balancer in front of it (#NSX ftw).Creation Redundant Connection Server to access virtual Desktops.What do I want to achieve or show to you in this blog post? There are many Installation Guidelines out there, so I will keep it quick and simple and try to give you some hints what to do or not to do. There are multiple design affecting factors I am going to discuss in my #design guide. But remember: Just because something is easy to install it is not necessarily easy to design. Just my 2 cents with knowing how Horizon View works and what it requires from a vCenter database standpoint.In the following article I am going to tell you how easy it is to set up a load balanced Horizon View environment. This is most likely going to be more cost effective as well as simpler to execute during a disaster than trying to register your desktops and entitle them on the fly after Zerto fails them over. (Note that the DR site would need a pool created from the template and entitled to the users who need to login.) Then if you are replicating your file servers with Zerto, you can fail them over, and have your users connect directly to the VDI pod at the DR site. If you are using linked clones, you could create another POD at the DR site, and copy your desktop template to that site and have everything ready to go. Horizon View and vCenter have a lot of dependencies on one another… You might be thinking about replicating your Horizon Servers, but they wouldnt do you a whole lot of good unless you pair them to your other vCenter at the DR site as well as the prod site. However, you would also need to create new horizon view servers at your DR site, and have them prepped and ready to go, then after a failover, you would need to register your desktop VM’s into that Horizon Server environment and also entitle users to their desktop (read: doable, but very manual). So that presents some challenges but Zerto should have no problems protecting a VDI VM. However, Zerto will not retain the “linked-clone” disk type at the DR site, meaning that each desktop would be a full clone at DR. Zerto is able to protect any virtual machine that is powered on.

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