You use global entitlements to entitle users and groups to desktops in a Cloud Pod Architecture environment. A global entitlement provides the link between users and their desktops, regardless of where those desktops reside in the pod federation. You must create and configure at least one global entitlement to use the Cloud Pod Architecture feature.
A global entitlement contains a list of member users or groups, a list of the desktop pools that can provide desktops for entitled users, and a set of desktop policies. You can add both users and groups, only users, or only groups, to a global entitlement. You can add a particular desktop pool to only one global entitlement.
Prerequisites
- Decide which type of global entitlement to create, the users, groups, and pools to include in the global entitlement, and the scope of the global entitlement. See Entitling Users and Groups in a Pod Federation.
- Decide whether the global entitlement should use home sites. See Configuring Home Sites to Control Desktop Placement.
- Create the desktop pools to include in the global entitlement. For information about creating desktop pools in View, see the Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View document.
- Create the users and groups to include in the global entitlement.
- Become familiar with the lmvutil command authentication options and requirements and verify that you have sufficient privileges to run the lmvutil command. See lmvutil Command Authentication.
- Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture feature. See Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature.
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Results
The Cloud Pod Architecture feature stores the global entitlement in the Global Data Layer, which replicates the global entitlement on every pod in the pod federation. When an entitled user uses Horizon Client to connect to a desktop, the global entitlement name appears in the list of available desktop pools.
When you add a desktop pool to a global entitlement, View checks to make sure that the desktop pool's default display protocol, protocol override, and virtual machine reset policies support the equivalent policies set for the global entitlement.
If a View administrator changes the pool-level display protocol or protocol override policy after a pool is associated with a global entitlement, users can receive a desktop launch error when they select the global entitlement. If a View administrator changes the pool-level virtual machine reset policy after a pool is associated with the global entitlement, users can receive an error if they try to reset the virtual machine.