4 Instant Clone clusters/pools, 1 login?

[LumberZack]

We are looking for a way to implement 2000 instant clone desktops across 4 vSAN clusters.

Each vSAN cluster of 8 hosts has a single pool of 500 desktops.

All clusters are in the same physical datacenter.

We need the ability to spread the logins across the clusters and allow users to reconnect to a desktop if disconnected.

We are running the latest version of each VMware product involved.

We are attempting to prevent a complete outage where an issue would take out the entire cluster were we to have all 32 hosts in the same cluster.

Historically we had a 24 node vSAN 5.5 cluster that crashed due to an SSD log file issue. This cost us 3 days of user access.  We avoided a repeat of the problem by breaking down the 24 nodes into 3x 8 nodes. Which reduced the risk to 33% of users.

We currently use an old version of Unidesk that creates the desktops across the 3 clusters and adds them to a single manual pool.

We want imitate the single pool type connection across the 4 new clusters using Instant Clones.

Hoping for some guidance.

Thanks,

Zack

[LumberZack · Accepted solution]

Found a solution.

The documentation is vague, but, you can create a Cloud Pod Federation of 1 "Pod Cluster."

The Pod contains a single vCenter Datacenter with 4 vSAN Clusters of 8 hosts each.

Horizon View has 4 Instant Clone Pools, built from the same image, each assigned to a cluster.

A Global Entitlement is created and each of the LOCAL pools are assigned along with an AD Group.

When a member of the Global Entitlement group (or groups) logs in, they are presented with the Global Entitlement as if it were a pool.

Users are being distributed to different clusters when they log in.

Zack