Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture

The View administrator adds the Sales Agents group to the global desktop entitlement. The Sales Agent
group is defined in Active Directory and contains all sales agent users. Adding the Sales Agent group to
the Agent Sales global desktop entitlement enables sales agents to access the Sales A and Sales B
desktop pools on the pods in the Eastern and Central regions.
2 To add the desktop pools in East Pod 1 to the global desktop entitlement, the View administrator logs
in to the View Administrator user interface for a View Connection Server instance in East Pod 1, selects
Catalog > Global Entitlements, double-clicks the global desktop entitlement, clicks Add on the Local
Pools tab, selects the desktop pools to add, and clicks Add.
3 To add the desktop pools in Central Pod 1 to the global desktop entitlement, the View administrator
logs in to the View Administrator user interface for a View Connection Server instance in Central Pod 1,
selects Catalog > Global Entitlements, double-clicks the global desktop entitlement, clicks Add on the
Local Pools tab, selects the desktop pools to add, and clicks Add.
4 To add the desktop pools in Central Pod 2 to the global desktop entitlement, the View administrator
logs in to the View Administrator user interface for a View Connection Server instance in Central Pod 2,
selects Catalog > Global Entitlements, double-clicks the global desktop entitlement, clicks Add on the
Local Pools tab, selects the desktop pools to add, and clicks Add.
Creating a View URL for the Example Configuration
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.
When a sales agent connects to the View URL in Horizon Client, the Agent Sales global entitlement appears
on the list of available desktop pools. When a sales agent selects the global desktop entitlement, the Cloud
Pod Architecture feature delivers the nearest available desktop in the pod federation. If all of the desktops in
the local data center are in use, the Cloud Pod Architecture feature selects a desktop from the other data
center. If a sales agent leaves a desktop session logged in, the Cloud Pod Architecture feature returns the
sales agent to that desktop, even if the sales agent has since traveled to a different region.
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