To onboard Horizon Cloud, you must set up your Horizon Edge with Horizon Connection Server as described in the following sections and redeem the Horizon Cloud Welcome email sent to the administrator account.
For information about redeeming the Horizon Cloud Welcome email, refer to Onboarding for Horizon Cloud Administrators.
To configure the Active Directory domain and identity provider, refer to Setting Up Identity and Access Provider Information for Edge Deployments.
For overall architecture information about Horizon 8 provider-type deployments, see Horizon 8 provider in Omnissa Tech Zone's Horizon Cloud Architecture.
You can add an existing vCenter instance as a capacity provider to a Horizon 8 Edge. For this task, you enable Horizon 8 Edge to access an existing vCenter Server. Specifically, you add a vCenter instance as a provider.
Prerequisites
- Deploy a Horizon 8 Edge. See Add and Deploy a Horizon 8 Edge.
- The Horizon 8 Edge should be in the Connected state.
- Obtain the URL and credentials for the vCenter instance in your deployment that you want to add to a Horizon 8 Edge Requirements Checklist for Deploying a Horizon 8 Edge.
- Obtain the port and protocol information to allow the Horizon 8 Edge to access the vCenter instance Port and Protocol Requirements for Deploying Horizon 8 Edge.
- To enable Horizon Image Management Service (IMS) features for Horizon 8, ensure that your environment meets the configuration requirements outlined in Tenant System Requirements on Horizon 8. These prerequisites are essential for successful deployment and operation of IMS capabilities.
Note: Multiple Horizon Edges can access the same vCenter instance.
Required Account Privilege
To deploy the Horizon Edge Gateway OVF/OVA, the vCenter Admin must assign a least-privilege role at the Datacenter level with Propagate to children enabled. The following privileges are required:
- Datastore: Allocate space, Browse, Low level file operations, Update VM files
- Network: Assign network
- Resource: Assign virtual machine to resource pool
- vApp: Import/Export
- Folder: Create/Delete folder (only if creating a new VM folder)
- Virtual Machine:
- Inventory: Create
- Configuration: Add/Remove device, Advanced configuration, Change CPU/Memory, Change settings, Extend virtual disk
- Interaction: Power on/Power off (optional: Device/Console interaction)
- Host: Local operations → Create/Reconfigure VM (required for direct-to-host or non-DRS scenarios)
Procedure
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Log in to Horizon Cloud. See Log in to Horizon Cloud.
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From the Horizon Universal Console Home page, click Capacity > Providers.
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Click Add > vCenter.
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Provide the following vCenter information.
- Horizon Edge - Select the name of the Horizon 8 Edge from the drop-down menu. The menu lists all Horizon 8 Edges connected to your Horizon Cloud deployment.
- Name - Enter a unique name for the provider.
- vCenter URL - Enter the URL of the vCenter instance.
- Capacity Type - Select the name of the deployment type of the vCenter instance from the drop-down menu.
- Location - Enter the physical location that is closest to your capacity provider.
- Username - Enter the username for the vCenter instance.
- Password - Enter the password for the vCenter instance.
A dialog box will appear that provides information about the certificate for the vCenter instance, including information about the certificate expiration date. Determine if you need to update the certificate and click OK.
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Click Save.
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