All you need to know about Horizon Cloud on Azure Dennis Sigmond
Dennis Sigmond EUC Architect @ Login Consultants vexpert 2017, 2018
Horizon Cloud on Azure Horizon Cloud on Azure Horizon Cloud Hosted Horizon Cloud On premise Cloud Provider Horizon Family Service Provider Horizon DaaS On premise Horizon Enterprise (View)
Why Horizon Cloud on Azure? xdw
Horizon Cloud Service Horizon Cloud Service Named User License Horizon Cloud Service Concurrent User License Bring-Your-Own Infrastructure VMware-Managed Hosted Infrastructure Microsoft Azure Cloud Infrastructure 3 rd Party On-premises Infrastructure Standard Capacity Value Professional Premium Performance Workstation Capacity ProfessionalWS PremiumWS PerformanceWS Hosted Apps Server
Horizon Cloud Overview System Admin Cloud.horizon.vmware.com Express Route or VPN / MPLS etc. End Users Customer URL On-Premises (optional)
Architecture System Admin Public IP DMZ JumpBox (short lived) Azure Load Balancer WS1 Connector End Users Unified Access Gateway (optional) VDI pool(s) Unified Access Gateway RDS License Server(s) RDS Farm(s) Express Route or VPN / MPLS etc. SmartNode Active Directory Base Image(s) Marketplace Active Directory On-Premises (optional) Cloud-Infrastructure Cloud-Capacity
Horizon Cloud on Azure Components JumbBox Node UAG Temporarily VM Used for Setup Management Node Outbound Only One for normal operation mode Can have multiple Connects with Azure subscription Connect with Active Directory Secure Access Two for normal operation mode Uses a Azure Load Balancer
Active Directory Considerations
Domain Services Example Azure AD Azure Domain Services Azure AD Connect On-Premises Connection
VMware Subscription Requirements
Azure Subscription Requirements Azure (Public Azure, Azure China, Azure Germany and Azure Government) Deployment: JumpBox 1x (F2) Horizon Cloud on Azure Infra: Management Node 2x (D3_v2) UAG 4x (A4_v2) RDSH: NV series (GPU) Dv2 VDI: Av2
Azure Subscription Subscription ID Directory ID Application Registration Application ID Application Key Service Principal Contributor, not Owner
Azure Subscription Subscription ID Directory ID Application Registration Application ID Application Key Service Principal Contributor, not Owner
Azure Subscription Subscription ID Directory ID Application Registration Application ID Application Key Service Principal Contributor, not Owner
Azure Subscription Subscription ID Directory ID Application Registration Application ID Application Key Service Principal Contributor, not Owner
Azure Networking Azure VNet Management Desktop DMZ Outbound internet Change DNS
External Access Azure Load Balancer FQDN This FQDN cannot contain underscores. In this release, connections to the Unified Access Gateway instances will fail when the FQDN contains underscores. SSL Certificate PEM Format
Azure Networking Internet VMware Horizon Cloud Control Plane Azure Load Balancer Public IP Base VM Image NIC/IP Unified Access Gateway 1 NIC/IP Unified Access Gateway 2 SmartNode Manager Jumpbox (temporary) NIC/IP NIC/IP NIC/IP NIC/IP NIC/IP NIC/IP Public IP NIC/IP DMZ Network Management Network Desktop Network (Tenant Network) 2 VPN Gateways with IPsec tunnel Connected to external network
Horizon Cloud on Azure - Deployment
Deploying the node Pending +/- 10 minutes Downloading +/- 10 minutes Building +/- 15 minutes Connecting +/- 10 minutes Total time: +/- 45 minutes
Azure Resources Horizon Cloud object naming: vmw-hcs-<nodeid>-component Example: vmw-hcs-62d3ad67-fbcd-4a40-ac88-5045daf2a7c0-node-manager
Updates Update staged by VMware Blue/Green method Update Agent x
Image Import from Marketplace Create your own DaaS Direct Connect User group
Image Updates Duplicate Image Imported Desktop Change Image Convert to Image Assign to Pool(s)
RDSH Maintenance Scheduled Maintenance. Daily or weekly. Two options Recreate and Restart Recreate destroys VM and builds fresh off of image. Restart just restarts current. Subsequent times will use the same Master image. A minimum amount of RDS Hosts are kept available during maintenance.
Power Management Pre-Provision MAX VM Min Desktops value between 0 and MAX Automatic shut down (deallocation) of unused servers. Optimized Performance Balanced Optimized Power Low threshold: 27% High threshold: 50% Low threshold: 37% High threshold: 66% Low threshold: 55% High threshold: 80%
Graphical Power Only for NV series Use Windows 2016 Install nvidia M60 driver https://docs.microsoft.com/enus/azure/virtual-machines/windows/nseries-driver-setup
Monitoring
Take Aways Horizon Cloud on Azure enables customers to deliver desktops on a global scale. Horizon Cloud on Azure is Fast and Easy to Deploy Use the VMware Preparation Sheet: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vmware-horizon-cloud- Service/services/HCS_onMicrosoftAzure-PreReqs.pdf User Power Management features to save costs.
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