Hello, I'm Rick Terlep, Senior Technical
Marketing Architect for VMware. This
video is a technical walk-through that
covers the prerequisites and steps you
need to take to connect your VMware Horizon 7
implementation to the VMware Horizon Cloud
Service.
Connecting your Horizon 7 implementation
to the Horizon Cloud Service is very
straightforward and can be accomplished
by the following steps outlined on this
slide. The first step is to acquire
subscription licenses from VMware or a
value-added reseller. The next step is to
download and deploy the Horizon 7 Cloud
connector virtual appliance from VMware.Com
into your environment, you will then
apply a valid CA signed certificate to
the appliance, then you will register
your Active Directory domain with the
Horizon Cloud Service, from there you can
grant entitlements from the Horizon
Cloud Service to your administrators,
let's look at what you need to do to
deploy the Horizon 7 Cloud connector
into your environment, there are a number
of prerequisites that you need to be
aware of before you're able to connect
the Horizon 7 Cloud connector to the
Horizon Cloud Service, first you must be
using Horizon 7.7 or later you must also
provide and have access to a MyVMware
account that has been enabled to access
the Horizon Cloud Service, unlike the
perpetual of Ison's model where a
license key is used to activate Horizon
7, the Horizon 7 subscription model does
not use a license key for activation,
instead, Horizon 7 subscription term is
activated and managed using the Horizon
Cloud connector connected to the Horizon
Cloud Service, you will need to deploy
the Horizon 7 Cloud connector appliance
and verify that you have connectivity
between the Horizon 7 connection server
and the Horizon 7 Cloud connector, and
the Horizon Cloud Service and the
Horizon 7 Cloud connector,
there are multiple ways to obtain the
Horizon 7 Cloud connector compliance,
in this clip, you can see how you can
initiate the deployment of the Horizon 7
Cloud connector appliance from the
Horizon Cloud Service, you can also
deploy the appliance manually, all of the
steps mentioned above are covered in the
VMware product documentation for the
Horizon 7 Cloud connector and the
Horizon Cloud Service, you're strongly
encouraged to follow the detailed
steps in these documents to connect your
Horizon 7 environment to the Horizon
Cloud Service, to manually deploy the
Horizon 7 Cloud connector appliance, you
will need to download it from the VMware
software downloads page, a link to the
appliance will be provided in the
subscription email that you receive from
VMware, to download the appliance, you
will need to log in with your my VMware
ID, please make sure that you download
version 1.1 or greater, a Horizon 7
connector appliance, use the appropriate
web client to deploy the OVF appliance
into the environment make sure that it's
powered on,
once the appliance is up and running, you
can then browse to the IP address of the
appliance to complete the configuration,
and
a valid certificate from a valid
certificate authority is required to
connect to the Horizon Cloud Service, the
steps for applying the certificate to the
Horizon 7 Cloud connector appliance
are detailed in the VMware product
documentation,
please note that the full certificate
and private key needs to be in PEM
format, you also need to verify that the
fully qualified domain name and the
subject alt name is included in the
issued certificate, use your my VMware
credentials to login to the appliance,
please note that you must have
connectivity between the Horizon
7 Cloud connector and the Horizon
Cloud Service for this to work properly,
you will need to use SSH to connect to
the Horizon 7 Cloud connector appliance
and copy the sign certificate and the
key into the correct directory paths,
you'll backup the cert current
certificate and key files, and replace
them with the ones you're providing, once
that is done, you will verify that the
issued fully qualified domain name is
correct and test by reloading the
Horizon Cloud connector user interface,
prior to completing the next step,
now we will demonstrate how to update
certificate on the Horizon 7
connector appliance, after you've
downloaded the appliance and applied the
virtual Center, you can use SCP or any
other file transfer method to copy your
new certificate files over to the
appliance, once the certificates are on
the appliance, you can update the
certificates by logging into the running
appliance by a SSH login, with the root
user, using the password you provided
during the deployment of the appliance,
first thing we'll do is make backups of
the existing certificate files,
after that, we'll update the certificate
files in the appropriate folders with
the new certificate,
then we will change the ownership of the
new certificates, following the product
documentation,
you
can optionally edit the nginx
configuration file to make sure it's
populated with all the correct
information,
after that, you can restart the nginx
Service, and you're ready to connect to
the club,
once you log into the Horizon 7
connector appliance, you can enter the
fully qualified domain name of the
appropriate Horizon 7 connection server,
verify the certificate information, in
the respective fields below, you'll also
need to supply credentials for the
respective Horizon 7 connection server,
here you're prompted to log in to the
Horizon 7 connection server,
once you have supplied that information,
you will be prompted to provide a name
for this Horizon 7 pod and give a
location, you can then add a short
description of the pod and choose
whether or not this Horizon 7 instance
exists in VMware Cloud on AWS, when the
connection is complete, you'll get a
visible notification,
you are now ready to access the Horizon
Cloud control plane and provide Active
Directory information to the Horizon
Cloud Service,
please make sure you read the product
documentation for details on what is
required to join your Active Directory
domain into the Horizon Cloud Service,
the product documentation contains full
details on the required Active Directory
account configurations and other
considerations before you can actually
define administrators for the Horizon
Cloud Service, after your first
successful pairing of your first pod
with Horizon Cloud Service, you log in to
Horizon Cloud at cloud.horizon, be
more calm to register an Active
Directory domain with your Horizon Cloud
environment, you should perform this
domain registration process shortly
after completing the Horizon 7 Cloud
connector appliance deployment, to secure
your tenant to pair your Active
Directory with the Horizon Cloud Service,
you'll need a domain buying account, an
auxilary domain buying account, a domain
joint account, and an auxilary domain
joint account, these accounts must be
configured correctly with the correct
privileges and roles for the domain join
process to complete successfully, please
follow the detail spelled out in the
product documentation, to create these
accounts correctly, please make sure
you're using the my VMware login that's
entitled with your Horizon subscription
license, to perform the domain bind
actions so that the domain is correctly
bound to your organization's tenant in
the Horizon Cloud Service, to join an
Active Directory domain, click configure
and enter the correct details in the
prompt, so follow, the first screen will
ask you to add all of the correct domain
bind information,
once
the domain bind action is complete,
you'll be prompted to enter the
information necessary to complete the
domain join,
once
your tenant is joined to the active
directory domain, you can choose what
groups to allow to log in, and administer
your Horizon Cloud Service tenant, going
forward, after you've selected a group,
you'll automatically log down to the
Horizon Cloud Service, relog in with your
my VMware account again, and then with an
administrator account that exists in the
group you defined in the last step, at
this point, you have completed all the
necessary steps to bind and join your
Horizon through your Active Directory
into Horizon Cloud Service.
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