horizon view separate vcenter

[tdubb123]

is it recommended to have horizon view hosted on its own vcenter?

how about view composer and view manager?  Is there HA or redundancy available for  these?

[cH1LL1]

@tdubb123 - Personally I host all VDI workload sperately from all Server workload. ( recommended)

I use a VCenter appliance for View and I host the View composer service on a 2012 box.

View composer redundancy......if the service stops working then your cloning operations stop. I'd rather setup some monitoring to ensure this service doesnt stop. and even if it does stop you can troubleshoot and fix this Live as it doesn't directly effect users unless you have no desktops available.

Your redundancy for View Manager is by creating multiple View managers (clustered).

I have in the past linked a View Vcenter to a server vcenter -  but its ugly watching the the different activity happen at the same time.(Recent Tasks).

hope that helps.

[douglasarcidino]

I'll echo what the first reply said, unless I cannot avoid sharing hosts between view and my servers, I always setup a completely different infrastructure for my desktops from my servers. You can link some of the components PSC and such and unify SSO. The only place I differ with the first reply is on the vCenter installation. Since I need a windows server for view composer, I use the windows vCenter server. If I need windows for one feature, I just deploy the whole thing on windows.

Redundant view managers, setup a second one and then do round robin or use a load balancer.

Doug

[cH1LL1]

And if you do go down the road of using  a load balancer ( NLB does actually work) and its part of windows. alternatively look at Kemp /A10/ etc.