Limited Availability
Horizon 8 offers OpenShift integration with limited availability. For more details on the functionality available in this limited availability release, see Horizon 8 Support for OpenShift Limited Availability.
If you are a current Omnissa customer and you would like to request access to this feature, contact your sales representative or partner. If you are not a current Omnissa customer and you would like to request access to this feature, contact GetHorizon8onOpenShiftLA@omnissa.com.Preparing a golden image on OpenShift
- Enter audit mode on your desktop OS VM.
- Install VirtIO, if you have not already done so.
- Download the following from Omnissa Customer Connect:
- Omnissa Horizon OS Optimization Tool (OSOT)
- Horizon Agent, if not already downloaded
- Run the OS Optimization Tool.
- Click Analyze.
- Once the analysis completes, click Optimize.
- Run the Horizon Agent installer.
- During installation:
- Check the box This machine will be used as a Golden Image.
- Specify the correct Connection Server.
- Return to the OSOT tool.
- Click Generalize and reboot.
- Enter audit mode again.
- Remove Copilot by running:
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -name Microsoft.Copilot | Remove-AppxPackage
- Finalize the image.
- Once optimization is complete, exit OSOT. (Recommended) Take a snapshot (recovery point) of the VM in case a rollback is needed.
- Go to Red Hat OpenShift Console > Virtualization > VirtualMachines > All projects > {your project}.
- Select the VM with the installed Horizon Agent.
- Under YAML, modify the following two settings:
Set tpm.persistent to false:
tpm:
persistent: false
Set efi.persistent to false:
efi:
persistent: false
secureBoot: true
- Under Snapshot, select Take snapshot.
- Fill out the snapshot information.
- Click Next, then Save.
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