As part of your upgrade, you can migrate Connection Server to a new machine.

Prerequisites

You do not need to make any changes to the configuration of existing load balancers.

Procedure

  1. Verify that an upgraded instance of Connection Server is running and is accessible to the new machine where you plan to install Connection Server.
    When you install Connection Server on the new host, you will point to this existing instance.
  2. On the new machine, install a replicated instance of Connection Server.
    The Horizon LDAP on the new instance will replicate that of the upgraded source instance.
  3. If applicable, uninstall Connection Server from the old host by using the Windows Add/Remove Programs utility.
  4. In Horizon Console, go to Settings > Servers > Connection Servers tab and determine whether the Connection Server instance that was uninstalled still appears in the list.
  5. If the uninstalled Connection Server instance still appears in the list, use a vdmadmin command to remove it.
    vdmadmin.exe -S -s server_name -r

    In this example, server_name is the host name or IP address of the Connection Server host. For more information about the vdmadmin command-line tool, see the Horizon 8 Administration document.

Results

A new instance of Connection Server is added to a group and an old instance is removed.

What to do next

Upgrade the other VMware Horizon 8 server components.

If you ever reinstall Connection Server on a server that has a data collector set configured to monitor performance data, stop the data collector set and start it again.

If you are using load balancers to manage access to Connection Servers, update the load balancer configuration to add the newly installed Connection Servers, and remove the decommissioned Connection Servers (if applicable).