Republishing Image Versions with Microsoft Azure

You can retry a failed image version publish attempt, or expand the locations of an image version to additional provider instances.

Use the Horizon Cloud Republish feature for the following use cases.

• If an attempt to publish an image version fails.

  You do not need to delete the old image and start from the beginning to republish the image version.

• If the image version was not included in the initial publication for a provider instance

  You can republish an image version to add it to a provider instance.

Before performing any of the following steps, also review key information at Microsoft Azure Deployments and IMS.

Note: If an imported VM was deployed on an Azure Dedicated Host, image validation will be supported. However, if the Azure Dedicated Host Group does not have Automatic Placement, image validation is not supported.

Republish an Image Version to Additional Provider Instances

When you have multiple provider instances, you might need to expand the locations of an image version to additional provider instances (edges) other than the ones selected during a previous publish phase.

Expand the location of an image version onto a new provider instance.

Prerequisites

The image version should be in a partially published, failed, or available state.

Procedure

1. On the Horizon Universal Console Home page, click Images.

2. On the Images page, click a published image link.

3. Select the published image and click Publish.

4. On the Republish Image page, Horizon Edges on which the image version failed to publish are selected automatically and cannot be deselected. Select the edge that does not include an image.

5. If you are using an un-authenticated outbound proxy for any pool VMs to communicate, turn on the toggle and provide the values for the proxy host and proxy port. This outbound proxy configuration is used to validate the Image Publish process by creating and cleaning-up a System Pool.

6. Click Republish.

Republish a Failed Image

If an attempt to publish an image fails, you can use the Republish workflow to retry publishing. With a Republish option you can re-trigger the publish operation from the point of failure.

Prerequisites

The image should be in a partially published, failed, or available state.

Procedure

1. On the Horizon Universal Console Home page, click Images.

2. On the Images page, click failed image link.

3. Select the failed image and click Publish.

4. If you are using an un-authenticated outbound proxy for any pool VMs to communicate, turn on the toggle and provide the values for the proxy host and proxy port. This outbound proxy configuration is used to validate the Image Publish process by creating and cleaning-up a System Pool.

   If you have already configured outbound proxy settings (proxy host and proxy port) for the Horizon Edge selected in this workflow, then turn on the Copy Horizon Edge proxy toggle to use the same configuration here. As a result, Horizon Edge proxy settings are automatically carried over to these fields: Proxy host and Proxy port.

5. On the Republish Image page, Horizon Edges on which the image failed to publish are selected automatically and cannot be deselected. Click Republish.