This topic provides the high-level steps that you must complete to start using the features in this product. Upon the completion of these steps, your environment will be set up and ready for the Horizon Image Management Service.
Note: Some of these high-level steps refer to more detailed instructions documented in the public information
Horizon Cloud - Deployments and Onboarding Pods or
Administration of Your Horizon Cloud Tenant Environment and Your Fleet of Onboarded Pods. Use the hypertext links provided in the high-level steps to open the HTML documentation pages containing detailed instructions.
- Familiarize yourself with the Horizon Image Management Service System Requirements and with the current known limitations and issues.
Those pages contain key information such as which Horizon pod deployment models are currently supported for use with IMS and which required versions of the key software components.
- Connect your pod to Horizon Cloud to make it a cloud-connected pod.
- For Horizon pod deployments, which use Connection Server software, follow the steps in Horizon Cloud Service - Deployments and Onboarding Pods, starting with High-Level Workflow When You are Onboarding an Existing Manually Deployed Horizon Pod as Your First Pod to Your Horizon Cloud Tenant Environment.
- For Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure deployments, follow the steps in that same Deployment Guide, starting with High-Level Workflow for When Your Very First Horizon Cloud Cloud-Connected Pod is from Using the Pod Deployer to Deploy a Pod into Microsoft Azure.
- For Horizon pods, set up the participating vCenter Server instances for the service.
- Verify that the vCenter Server instances meet the prerequisites described in the system requirements.
- Configure the vCenter Server login credentials. See Cloud-Connected Horizon Pods - Configure the vCenter Server Instances for Use with Horizon Image Management Service.
- Import images into the image catalog.
- For images sourced from vCenter Server, see Import an Image from vCenter into the Image Catalog.
- For images sourced from Microsoft Azure Marketplace, see Create a Golden Image by Automated Import of a Base VM from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace into the Image Catalog.
- Publish the image versions. See Publish an Image Version.
- Create desktop assignments that use managed images from the image catalog.
- For assignments involving managed images from Horizon pods, see Create a New Desktop Pool for Multi-Cloud Assignments and Cloud-Connected Horizon Pods - Create an Automated Farm from a Managed Image.
Note: Applicable for this pod type, in this guide, a desktop assignment refers to one of the following: automated full-clone desktop pool, automated instant-clone desktop pool, automated instant-clone farm.
- For assignments involving managed images from Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure deployments, see Pods in Microsoft Azure - Creating VDI Multi-Cloud Assignments with Managed Images.
- For assignments involving managed images from Horizon pods, see Create a New Desktop Pool for Multi-Cloud Assignments and Cloud-Connected Horizon Pods - Create an Automated Farm from a Managed Image.
After performing the preceding steps, the Horizon Image Management Service is now up and running in your environment.
