If you plan to deploy VMware Horizon on a VMware virtualization platform, you must configure VMware Horizon to connect to the vCenter Server instances in your VMware Horizon deployment. vCenter Server creates and manages the virtual machines that VMware Horizon uses in desktop pools.
If you run vCenter Server instances in a Linked Mode group, you must add each vCenter Server instance to VMware Horizon separately. Horizon supports one or multiple vCenter Servers added to the same Horizon pod, as well as a single vCenter Server across multiple Horizon pods in a Cloud Pod Architecture environment.
VMware Horizon connects to the vCenter Server instance using a secure channel (TLS).
Prerequisites
- Install the Horizon perpetual license key. Or if you are using a subscription license, deploy the Horizon Cloud Connector to enable your subscription license.
- Prepare a vCenter Server user with permission to perform the operations in vCenter Server that are necessary to support VMware Horizon.
- Verify that there is a TLS server certificate installed on the vCenter Server host. In a production environment, install a valid certificate that is signed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA).
In a testing environment, you can use the default certificate that is installed with vCenter Server, but you must accept the certificate thumbprint when you add vCenter Server to VMware Horizon.
- Verify that all Connection Server instances in the replicated group trust the root CA certificate for the server certificate that is installed on the vCenter Server host. Check if the root CA certificate is in the
See "Import a Root Certificate and Intermediate Certificates into a Windows Certificate Store".
folder in the Windows local computer certificate stores on the Connection Server hosts. If it is not, import the root CA certificate into the Windows local computer certificate stores. - Verify that the vCenter Server instance contains ESXi hosts. If no hosts are configured in the vCenter Server instance, you cannot add the instance to VMware Horizon.
- Verify that the domain administrator account that you use as the vCenter Server user was explicitly assigned permissions to log in to vCenter Server by a vCenter Server local user.
- Familiarize yourself with the settings that determine the maximum operations limits for vCenter Server.
Procedure
What to do next
If VMware Horizon uses multiple vCenter Server instances, repeat this procedure to add the other vCenter Server instances.