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mastertime
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Horizon View Multisite environment. how to manage user profiles?

Hi all

I am implementing a VDI environment with 2 sites which are geographically close to 25 kilometers approx The solution includes f5 big ip and horizon cloud pod architecture. I have plan to use persona management for user profile management. But how to manage these distributed on 2 sites ?. Has anyone implemented something? which has been the strategy ?.


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cH1LL1
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It really depends on your users movements.....I can only explain from our own environment -

We have a London office and regional offices. users move between sites frequently.

I setup 2 home groups using the Pod architecture, any regional user will always connect to the regional pod and any London user will always connect to the London Pod. (unless a pod is unavailable).


London users obv have their Persona data on a London Persona Server with a secondary copy in the Regional location (DFS copy)  this will fail over to the backup copy if the first one fails.... (This has happened several times. its a critical step.)

Regional users obv have their Persona Data on a Regional Server with a secondary copy in the London Location (DFS Copy) same rule above replies....


Happy to comment further.


Hope that helps.


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curtisbrown_01
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As cH1LL1@cH1LL1 says, it's somewhat dependent on use case, and how mobile your users are but heavy use of folder redirection Group Policy out to DFS-R presented file shares for user data is a good place to start.

For the user profile, well, this is trickier.  DFS-R isn't recommended for Roaming Profiles due to rate-of-change of data and using VMware Persona Manager won't help much here.  However, using UEM to manage the user profiles might be a better approach (subject, of course, to licensing).

Use UEM to capture Application profiles for all of your applications and host the UEM Config Share on DFS-R. Then the remainder of the profile (which after application profile and folder redirection will be quite small) can sit on a straight file share.  You could go DFS-R here as users are unlikely to flit between sites rapidly, but it would also work with regular file shares for each site and allocating users accordingly.

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mastertime
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first of all thank you very much for the answers. users should not have too much mobility the real goal of this is that disaster of a site easily users can continue working in the surviving site. if I work with fileserver and person management and site recovery manager would have to first of all make faiolver the file server so that users can connect to the surviving site. ideal would then use DFS-R with a namespace, but this is not supported for roaming profiles.
according to the last answer curtis serious recommendation to use UEM for the administration of application profiles and folder redirection, as this if not support DFS-R. curtis if tubieses more information about this configuration you would appreciate. try to set up a laboratory of this functionality.
Thank you

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joshopper
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While DFS-R is generally not supported there are some 3rd party applications that can manage the job, two which I see frequently are SyncThing and PeerSync.

https://syncthing.net/

https://www.peersoftware.com/products/sync-backup/peersync-for-servers.html

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mastertime
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thanks for the info

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