Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture
Table Of Contents
- Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture
- Contents
- Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture
- Introduction to Cloud Pod Architecture
- Designing a Cloud Pod Architecture Topology
- Creating Cloud Pod Architecture Sites
- Entitling Users and Groups in the Pod Federation
- Finding and Allocating Desktops and Applications in the Pod Federation
- Global Entitlement Example
- Cloud Pod Architecture Topology Limits
- Cloud Pod Architecture Port Requirements
- Security Considerations for Cloud Pod Architecture Topologies
- Setting Up a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment
- Managing a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment
- View a Cloud Pod Architecture Configuration
- View Pod Federation Health in View Administrator
- View Desktop and Application Sessions in the Pod Federation
- Determine the Effective Home Site for a User
- Add a Pod to a Site
- Modifying Global Entitlements
- Remove a Home Site Association
- Remove a Pod From the Pod Federation
- Uninitialize the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature
- lmvutil Command Reference
- lmvutil Command Use
- Initializing the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature
- Disabling the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature
- Managing Pod Federations
- Managing Sites
- Managing Global Entitlements
- Managing Home Sites
- Viewing a Cloud Pod Architecture Configuration
- Listing Global Entitlements
- Listing the Pools in a Global Entitlement
- Listing the Users or Groups in a Global Entitlement
- Listing the Home Sites for a User or Group
- Listing the Effective Home Site for a User
- Listing Dedicated Desktop Pool Assignments
- Listing the Pods or Sites in a Cloud Pod Architecture Topology
- Managing SSL Certificates
- Index
Introduction to Cloud Pod
Architecture 1
The Cloud Pod Architecture feature uses standard View components to provide cross-datacenter
administration, global and flexible user-to-desktop mapping, high availability desktops, and disaster
recovery capabilities.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Understanding Cloud Pod Architecture,” on page 7
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“Configuring and Managing a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment,” on page 8
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“Cloud Pod Architecture Limitations,” on page 8
Understanding Cloud Pod Architecture
With the Cloud Pod Architecture feature, you can link together multiple View pods to provide a single large
desktop and application brokering and management environment.
A View pod consists of a set of View Connection Server instances, shared storage, a database server, and the
vSphere and network infrastructures required to host desktop virtual machines and application pools. In a
traditional View implementation, you manage each pod independently. With the Cloud Pod Architecture
feature, you can join together multiple pods to form a single View implementation called a pod federation.
A pod federation can span multiple sites and datacenters and simultaneously simplify the administration
effort required to manage a large-scale View deployment.
Figure 1‑1. Basic Cloud Pod Architecture Topology
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In the example topology, two previously standalone View pods in different datacenters are joined together
to form a single pod federation. An end user in this environment can connect to a View Connection Server
instance in the New York datacenter and receive a desktop or application in the London data center.
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