Category: Horizon
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VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Pools & Pool Groups
My previous blog explained the VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Images. In this blog, I will explain which steps you need to take to create a pool and how to add the pool to a pool group and entitle the group. Pools To create a pool you must have a published image. The pool will…
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VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Images
My previous blog explained the VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – deployment. In this blog, I will explain which steps you need to take to Add an Image and Publish the image. Images allows us to provide desktops and publish application to end-users in Azure. You can add images from the Azure Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Compute…
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VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Deployment
My previous blog explained the VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Prerequisites. In this blog, I will explain which steps you need to take to start the Horizon Cloud deployment. Getting started First, we will need to log in to the Horizon Universal Console. Once logged in you will see the Get Started page. Select Horizon…
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VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Prerequisites
This blog post is part of a series of posts I will be creating regarding the Horizon Cloud Next-Gen deployment. In this post, I will explain the prerequisites for Horizon Cloud deployment. Coming posts in the series will have topics like image deployment, Pool creation, App Deployment, Dynamic Environment Manager integration, and maybe more. Prerequisites…
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Change DNS on Horizon DaaS 9.x appliance
In the previous versions of Horizon DaaS, you had to change DNS via the interfaces file and the resolv.conf file. Since VMware upgraded the OS of the Horizon DaaS appliances to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS these changes must be done via netplan. Below I will explain how to use netplan.
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How to migrate Workspace ONE Connector
Until Horizon DaaS 9.1.2 only Identity Manager connector 19.03.0.1 could be used to access the Virtual Apps Collections however Identity Manager connector 19.03.0.1 has been out of general support since 2022-08-31. As of September 27th Workspace ONE Access connector 22.09 has been released (release notes). This version supports Virtual Apps Collections on Horizon DaaS 9.1.4…
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Domain-Join account Horizon DaaS 9.x
For Horizon DaaS the Tenant environment needs 2 types of domain service accounts. A domain bind account that is used to perform lookups in your AD domain and a domain join account that is used for joining computer accounts to the domain and performing Sysprep operations. The domain bind account is rather simpel. Just create…
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Replacing the Horizon Version Manager and Horizon Air Link appliances
With the release of Horizon DaaS 9, VMware introduced two new appliances the Horizon Version Manager (HVM) and the Horizon Air Link (HAL). The HVM is the automation appliance, based on Rundeck automation. The HAL is the resource manager for the management appliances. With the release of a new version of Horizon DaaS 9, these…
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Customize Vmware Horizon DaaS User portal
Customizing the Horizon DaaS User portal with a custom logo is not an easy job. Below you will find the instruction to change the default logo and background for a custom one.
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How to add GPU enabled Cluster to Horizon DaaS
Lately, we see a lot of customers adding GPU cards to their ESXi hosts to support GPU-accelerated VDI’s. In this blog, I will explain how the GPU enabled cluster is added step by step to VMware Horizon DaaS.