Release date: March 9th 2019
Welcome to my VMware Horizon series. In this session I will describe how I installed my first Replica server. The main reason for having multiple Connection-servers are load balancing and high availability. This replica-setup is based on Horizon v. 7.6
Prior to installing the replica server, we need to review the pre-requisites layed out by VMware here:
I will use my word-template which I filled in during preparations, when doing this task.
I deploy my new virtual machine with the OS of my choice, this VMware Horizon View 7.6 Replica server can be setup on:
I will be using Microsoft Windows Server 2016 in this Lab.
I customize the hardware accordingly to VMware’s Hardware requirements:
I give the server a meaningful computername, in this Lab it will be view-conn02, and join it to the domain.
Now we come to the actual Replica Server setup
Download Vmware Horizon 7.6.0 Connection Server
Start the “VMware-Horizon-Connection-Server-x86_64-7.6.0-9823717.exe”
Run through the installation as follows:
When the Installation wizard starts, Next
Accept the terms, Next…
Default destination folder is a good a location as any, Next…
This Connection server will be setup as Replica Server, Next…
I enter the fqdn of the connection server to replicate, Next…
I like to let the firewall, in this Lab I use Windows Defender firewall, be enabled on my Windows Servers, and select “Configure Windows Firewall Automatically”, Next…
Install…
After the installer finishes with status Completed, I click Finish…
When I now login into my Horizon Admin Gui, I can see both my connection servers. The reason they are both Red at the time being, is that I haven’t setup a certificate for them yet. I will now setup an Anti-Affinity rule in DRS on my cluster to make sure these servers are newer located on the same hw in case of hw-crash.
VMware Horizon planning, deployment etc.
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