I'm planning a large Horizon View environment that will consist of about 6000 desktops.
That's the basic design. What baffles me is how to load balance across the three pools? In other words how could I get Horizon Client to auto-select an available pool based on the least amount of active desktops in a pool (block)?
Global Entitlements replicate across pods/sites in your cloud pod federation. So if all 6 pools are identical, you can create a single global entitlement and add all 6 pools so that your users will only see 1 icon.
Your user entitlements (permissions to the pool) will be done at the global entitlement; you actually won't have any entitlements set on the local pools themselves (you'll get a warning in the pool saying no users are entitled, but it really isn't true; hopefully fixed in a future update).
I assume you aren't utilizing Cloud Pod Architecture today? With CPA, you can assign all 3 pools into a single global entitlement; the user will only see one pool, but in reality all 3 are behind that entitlement. I'm not 100% sure of the load balancing mechanism, but it will broker to the pool based on availability.
-Nick
Actually the plan IS to use CPA, so I guess that answers my question. If I have three pools in Datacenter01 and three pools in Datacenter02 will CPA display each pod (3 pools) as an individual entitlement?
Global Entitlements replicate across pods/sites in your cloud pod federation. So if all 6 pools are identical, you can create a single global entitlement and add all 6 pools so that your users will only see 1 icon.
Your user entitlements (permissions to the pool) will be done at the global entitlement; you actually won't have any entitlements set on the local pools themselves (you'll get a warning in the pool saying no users are entitled, but it really isn't true; hopefully fixed in a future update).