VMware Horizon View 5.2 Load Balancing

[mobinqasim786]

Hi Guys,

I'm using VMware Horizon View 5.2 and my infrastructure is as follows:

2 x View Security Servers

2 x View Connection Servers

Can anyone please guide me how to setup Load Balancer and what are the best practice configuring Load Balancer for VMware Horizon View.

Cheers

[markbenson · Accepted solution]

http://pubs.vmware.com/view-52/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/horizon-view-52-architecture-planning.pdf

Just place your load balancer in front of the two Security Servers. This is shown on page 70 - figure 5-2.

If you want to also allow access by internal users, then add two more Connection Server replicas. This is shown on page 71 - figure 5-3.

Your View Clients will connect to the appropriate load balanced alias name.

Mark  

[mobinqasim786]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply. I'd like to know the changes I've to make inside the View Admin console under servers configuration. What changes do I need to make under View Security Servers settings and  under View Connection Servers settings?

Regards

[markbenson]

Take a look at this (the video at the end).

It goes through a setup for internal and remote access and covers all the settings needed for External URLs etc.

https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-14974

Mark

[mobinqasim786]

Mark, thanks for the link that helped a lot. I just have one issue and would like you to elaborate it please. In the video it says use separate External URL for each Security Server and configured IP address for both HTTP(S) Secure Tunnel and PCoIP secure Gateway in the video. Also Load Balancer VIP address was pointed to "myview.myco.com" which clients will use to access remotely. I tried to make these changes and View Admin console is showing Security Servers certificates doesn't match the URL which is correct, because myview.myco.com is not configured in the HTTP(S) Secure Tunne settings. Do I have to make some changes on Security Server or on Load Balancer end?

Cheers

[bayupw]

Hi mobinqasim786

You would need a certificate with Subject Alternative Names (SAN) SubjectAltName - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://pubs.vmware.com/view-52/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/horizon-view-52-obtaining-certificates.pd...

There is also a nice blog post written by RobBeekmans here:

vThoughts of IT: VMware View certificates and thumbprints - Man in the middle issue

vThoughts of IT: VMware View certificate revocation issues, who's the man in the middle

Thanks,

Bayu