You onboard an existing Horizon 7 pod to the cloud for two primary use cases: to activate a subscription license for that pod and enable your use of those cloud-hosted services that Horizon Cloud provides for that type of pod. You onboard a pod in Microsoft Azure by using the Horizon Cloud Administration Console to deploy that pod into your Microsoft Azure cloud subscription.
- Relationship between Onboarding Your First Pod with the Horizon Universal License, the My VMware Account Associated with That License, Your Horizon Cloud Tenant, and the Welcome Email
- Onboarding Requirements Checklists
- Revision History for these Onboarding Topics
- Intended Audience
- About the Screenshots
- Horizon Cloud Community
- Contacting VMware Support
Relationship between Onboarding Your First Pod with the Horizon Universal License, the My VMware Account Associated with That License, Your Horizon Cloud Tenant, and the Welcome Email
At a high-level, the connect-the-dots between these elements is:
- Get a subscription license. Currently the Horizon universal license is the official subscription license to get. The license will be associated with the specific My VMware account that is used in the license request.
- In the cloud control plane, VMware sets up the new Horizon Cloud tenant account and environment, associates it with the My VMware account that the Horizon universal license is associated with that account in step 1. Horizon Cloud is a multi-tenant cloud environment.
- VMware sends the Welcome to the VMware Horizon Service email to the email address that is configured in the My VMware account in step 1 and with which the license is associated. For an example of this welcome email, see the screenshot below.
- After the email is received, you read the information it contains and use the hypertext links in the Getting Started section to open the URLs to get to key destinations such as the tenant environment portal (named the Horizon Cloud Administration Console), the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector software download location, and online documentation.
For the steps to add additional My VMware accounts to log in to your tenant account, see Add Administrators to Log in to Your Horizon Cloud Tenant Environment.
- Getting the license
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You must get the license first, because that's the point at which VMware generates your Horizon Cloud tenant account and environment.
- Your new Horizon Cloud tenant account in the cloud control plane
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Your Horizon Cloud tenant account is important to you even when your only use case is to use a subscription license with your existing Horizon 7 pods, and you aren't imagining using cloud-hosted services with your pods. The reason why this tenant account is important to you is that same tenant account is use for both:
- Logging in to the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector onboarding and management portal. The Horizon 7 Cloud Connector portal is used for onboarding a Horizon 7 pod to the cloud to use the subscription license, as well as to enable cloud-hosted services. After you complete the initial onboarding of the Horizon 7 pod, you can log in to the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector portal at any time to manage features of the connector itself.
- Logging in to the Horizon Cloud tenant environment portal, named the Horizon Cloud Administration Console. TheHorizon Cloud tenant environment portal is used to add additional administrators so that they can also use the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector onboarding and management portal besides the initial My VMware account that got the license. This tenant environment portal is also used to access the cloud-hosted services, such as the Cloud Monitoring Service's monitoring dashboard and reports and the pod deployment wizard for deploying into Microsoft Azure. This portal is named the Horizon Cloud Administration Console.
- How that tenant account relates to the My VMware account associated with the license
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A My VMware account must be used to obtain the Horizon universal license in the first place. As a result, that My VMware account is the initial one registered with the newly created Horizon Cloud tenant account and environment, and is used for the login credentials to the Horizon Cloud tenant account (used by both portals listed above). When the tenant account is created, the Welcome to the VMware Horizon Service email is sent to the specific email address that is configured that My VMware account. The following screenshot is an illustration of the welcome mail. You must ensure that you or someone in your organization is able to get the welcome email from that email account which is associated with the My VMware account which was used to purchase the subscription license, so that you'll can make use of the links in that email to go to downloads for the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector, open the Horizon Cloud tenant portal, and so on.
The following screenshot illustrates a sample of the welcome email and calls out where the My VMware account is referenced.
- Your new Horizon Cloud tenant environment and its portal
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As soon as you get the welcome email from VMware, the associated My VMware account can log in to that newly created Horizon Cloud tenant environment, even when you have zero cloud-connected pods. However, at this initial point, the tenant environment portal provides access to a single initial screen and a small subset of cloud-hosted workflow actions within that screen.
The following screenshot shows that portal at the point in time when your tenant account is first created. The list that follows describes the key actions you can take in that screen prior to onboarding your first pod.
Tip: Click on the General Setup bar in that portal screen to see two of the key actions that are listed below.- Learning how to onboard an on-premises Horizon 7 pod, in the On-Premises row.
- Learning how to onboard a Horizon 7 pod in to your SDDC capacity in VMware Cloud on AWS, from the Add Cloud Capacity row's Add button.
- Deploying a pod into Microsoft Azure, from that same Add Cloud Capacity row's Add button.
- Adding administrators to whom you want to give the ability to log in to the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector onboarding and management portal and the Horizon Cloud Administration Console (the portal to your tenant environment). The My VMware account that was used for setting up the tenant is prefilled there by default. As a result, you will see that row marked with a green check mark. However, that is only because there is always the one initial My VMware account associated with the tenant account when the tenant environment is created.
Tip: To prevent being locked out of both your tenant environment and the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector onboarding due to access using the initial My VMware account going inactive for some reason — such as that person leaving your company or organization — it is prudent to add additional administrators as soon as you receive the Welcome to Horizon Service email, even before you onboard a pod for the first time.
- Enablement of the Cloud Monitoring Service (CMS). The CMS is enabled by default, so you will see that row marked with a green check mark. At this point, you can choose to toggle off that feature even prior to onboarding any pods.
- Learning how to onboard an on-premises Horizon 7 pod, in the On-Premises row.
Onboarding Requirements Checklists
If your first pod onboarding is to exploit your Horizon subscription license with an existing Horizon 7 pod before starting the steps described in this onboarding documentation set, first read VMware Horizon 7 with Horizon Cloud Requirements Checklist - for Use with the December 2019 Service Release. That topic describes various prerequisite elements needed to successfully connect a Horizon 7 pod to Horizon Cloud. After the Horizon 7 pod is cloud-connected, the Horizon subscription license is pushed from the cloud to the pod and you can start enabling the cloud-hosted services for that pod within the tenant portal itself.
If your first pod onboarding is in Microsoft Azure, before starting the steps described in this onboarding documentation set, first read VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure Requirements Checklist - for Use with the December 2019 Service Release. That topic describes various prerequisite elements needed to have a successful first pod deployment into Microsoft Azure.
Revision History for these Onboarding Topics
This documentation set of topics is updated with each release of the product or when necessary.
This table provides the update history.
| Revision | Description |
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| 13 JAN 2020 | Updated proxy-related information for the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector. Updated topics include High-Level Workflow When You are Onboarding an Existing Manually Deployed Horizon 7 Pod as Your First Pod to Your Horizon Cloud Tenant Environment, Preparing to Run the Onboarding Wizard to Pair a Horizon 7 Pod with Horizon Cloud Using the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector, and About Configuring Proxy Settings and No-Proxy Hosts for Horizon 7 Cloud Connector. Fixed a typo in Tech Preview - VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure Extending Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop that was in the GPO enablement steps about UWP applications. |
| 6 JAN 2020 | New information added to topics about enabling SSH for the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector appliance, requirements on the Active Directory administration account used to pair the Horizon 7 Cloud Connector with the Horizon 7 Connector Server, and about using UWP applications in the Tech Preview of VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure Extending Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop. |
| 12 DEC 2019 | Initial version, when the described features were deployed live into production. This document describes the latest service features.
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Intended Audience
The information in this document is intended for experienced data center administrators with knowledge in the following areas.
- VMware Horizon
- VMware Horizon® 7 Cloud Connector™
- VMware Unified Access Gateway™
- VMware Workspace ONE® Access™
- Virtualization technology
- Networking
- VMware Cloud™ on AWS (VMware Cloud)
- VMware Horizon® 7 on VMware Cloud™ on AWS
- Microsoft Azure
About the Screenshots
The screenshots typically:
- Show only that portion of the overall user interface screen that corresponds to the text at which point the screenshot appears, and not necessarily the full user interface.
- Have blurred areas where appropriate to maintain data anonymity.
- In the PDF format, screenshot images that are wider than 6 inches are automatically resized. As a result, such images might appear blurry in the PDF format. In the parallel HTML pages, you can click on such wide screenshot images to see the image at its full-size.
Horizon Cloud Community
Use the following communities to ask questions, explore answers given for questions asked by other users, and access links to useful information.
- VMware Horizon Cloud Service community at https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/horizon-cloud-service
- VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure sub-community at https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/horizon-cloud-service/horizon-cloud-on-azure, a sub-community of the VMware Horizon Cloud Service community.
Contacting VMware Support
Contact VMware Support when you need help with your Horizon Cloud environment.
- You can submit a support request to VMware Support online using your My VMware® account or by phone.
- KB 2144012 Customer Support Guidelines provides details for getting support depending on the issue encountered.
- In the Administration Console, clicking
> Support, displays the link to that KB 2144012 also.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation, visit http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.