The Cloud Pod Architecture feature uses standard Horizon components to provide cross-data center administration. With the Cloud Pod Architecture feature, you link together multiple pods to provide a single large desktop and application brokering and management environment. A pod consists of a set of Omnissa Horizon Connection Server instances, shared storage, a database server, and the vSphere and network infrastructures required to host desktop and application pools.
Use the following process to upgrade a Cloud Pod Architecture environment.
- Upgrade all Horizon Connection Server instances in one pod, according to the usual process for upgrading a single Horizon Connection Server instance.
- Repeat the preceding step for the other pods in the pod federation, upgrading each pod one-by-one.
During the upgrade process, some Horizon Connection Server instances use the latest version of Omnissa Horizon 8 and some use the older version. Although this mixed-version environment is supported beginning with Horizon 7 version 7.4, new features do not work in a mixed environment. For example, a new feature that is visible in Omnissa Horizon Console on an upgraded server is not visible in Horizon Console on a server that has not been upgraded.
For information about designing and setting up a Cloud Pod Architecture environment, see Cloud Pod Architecture in Horizon 8.
If you're upgrading to Horizon version 2503 from a previous version, after all of the pods in the pod federation are upgraded, we recommend that you plan and perform updating the partition names to the new ones. For details, refer to KB article 6000797.
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