Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture

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The insurance company uses a single View URL and employs a DNS service to resolve sales.example
to the nearest pod in the nearest data center. With this arrangement, sales agents do not need to
remember different URLs for each pod and are always directed to the nearest data center, regardless
of where they are located.
Designing the Example Topology
The insurance company designs a Cloud Pod Architecture topology that includes a site for each region.
Figure 3‑1. Example Cloud Pod Architecture Topology
east1.example
East Pod 1
Eastern Region
east2.example east3.example
east4.example east5.example
central1.example
Central Pod 1
Central Region
central2.example central3.example
central4.example central5.example
central6.example
Central Pod 2
central7.example central8.example
central9.example central10.example
Sales A Sales B
Sales A
Sales B
Sales A
Sales B
In this topology, the Eastern region site contains a single pod, East Pod 1, that consists of five View
Connection Server instances called east1.example through east5.example.
The Central region site contains two pods, Central Pod 1 and Central Pod 2. Each pod contains five View
Connection Server instances. The View Connection Servers in the first pod are called central1.example
through central5.example. The View Connection Server instances in the second pod are called
central6.example through central10.example.
Each pod in the topology contains two desktop pools of sales agent desktops, called Sales A and Sales B.
Initializing the Example Configuration
To initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture feature, the View administrator logs in to the View Administrator
user interface for a View Connection Server instance in East Pod 1, selects View Configuration > Cloud Pod
Architecture, and clicks Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture feature.
Because the View administrator uses the View Administrator user interface for a View Connection Server
instance in East Pod 1, the pod federation initially contains East Pod 1. The pod federation also contains a
single site, called Default First Site, which contains East Pod 1.
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