Hi. Can a single instance of Horizon View support more than one version of View? For example, I currently have a desktop cluster running View 6.0.1. I want to test out View 7.1 on a separate desktop cluster but still maintain a single URL to all View desktops. Can View 7.1 be a replica to View 6.0.1 servers?
Horizon environment requires multiple components working together in concert. You can either have View 6 or 7 but you should not have both in a production environment unless for testing. If you still want to give it a try;
* Install a Replica Connection Server 7 – Additional Connection Servers that replicate from the standard Connection Server 6.
* You might also need to install a new version of View Composer Server or possibly use the current one
* The tables in the database might not be happy running two different version of view but you can try to create new tables
* You also might need to install the new View Agent for the newly created VMs & most likely the latest version of the VMware Tools for 7
If it's for testing run 7 with 6 or if you care about 6 just install an entire view 7 environment separated from 6 so you don't mess with the components or upgrade/run a clean install of 7.
Raul.
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Thanks for the response Raul. I'm very familiar with View (have deployed and worked with it since the beginning of View). Just wasn't sure if View 7.X could be a replica of View 6.X. It's for a customer production environment, so I'll let them know it's not a supported config.
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