Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture

5 In the Password text box, type the password for the View administrator user.
6 Click OK to join the pod to the pod federation.
View Administrator shows the progress of the join operation. The default pod name is based on the
host name of the View Connection Server instance. For example, if the host name is CS1, the pod name
is Cluster-CS1.
7 When View Administrator prompts you to reload the client, click OK.
After the View Administrator user interface is refreshed, Global Entitlements appears under Catalog
and Sites appears under View Configuration in the View Administrator Inventory panel.
8 (Optional) To change the default name of the pod, select View Configuration > Sites, select the pod,
click Edit, type the new name in the Name text box, and click OK.
After the pod is joined to the pod federation, it begins to share health data. You can view this health data on
the dashboard in View Administrator. See “View Pod Federation Health in View Administrator,” on
page 29.
NOTE A short delay might occur before health data is available in View Administrator.
What to do next
You can repeat these steps to join additional pods to the pod federation.
Create and Configure a Global Entitlement
You use global entitlements to entitle users and groups to desktops in a Cloud Pod Architecture
environment. A global entitlement provides the link between users and their desktops, regardless of where
those desktops reside in the pod federation. You must create and configure at least one global entitlement to
use the Cloud Pod Architecture feature.
A global entitlement contains a list of member users or groups, a list of the desktop pools that can provide
desktops for entitled users, and a set of desktop policies. You can add both users and groups, only users, or
only groups, to a global entitlement. You can add a particular desktop pool to only one global entitlement.
Prerequisites
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Decide which type of global entitlement to create, the users, groups, and pools to include in the global
entitlement, and the scope of the global entitlement. See “Entitling Users and Groups in the Pod
Federation,” on page 10.
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Decide whether the global entitlement should use home sites. See “Configuring Home Sites to Control
Desktop Placement,” on page 11.
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Create the desktop pools to include in the global entitlement. For information about creating desktop
pools in View, see the Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View document.
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Create the users and groups to include in the global entitlement.
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Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture feature. See “Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature,” on
page 15.
Procedure
1 Log in to the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the pod
federation.
2 In View Administrator, select Catalog > Global Entitlements and click Add.
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