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4 Click Next and add users or groups to the global entitlement.
a Click Add, select one or more search criteria, and click Find to filter Active Directory users or
groups based on your search criteria.
b Select the Active Directory user or group to add to the global entitlement and click OK.
You can press the Ctrl and Shift keys to select multiple users and groups.
5 Click Next, review the global entitlement configuration, and click Finish to create the global
entitlement.
The global entitlement appears on the Global Entitlements page.
6 Select the desktop pools that can provide desktops for the users in the global entitlement you created.
a Log in to the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the
pod that contains the desktop pool to add to the global entitlement.
b In View Administrator, select Catalog > Global Entitlements.
c Double-click the global entitlement.
d On the Local Pools tab, click Add, select the desktop pools to add, and click Add.
You can press the Ctrl and Shift keys to select multiple desktop pools.
NOTE Desktop pools that are already associated with a global entitlement or that do not meet the
criteria for the global entitlement policies you selected are not displayed.
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.
NOTE If a View administrator changes the pool-level display protocol or protocol override policy after a
desktop 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 desktop pool is associated with the global entitlement, users can receive an error if they try to reset
the desktop.
Create and Configure a Site
If your Cloud Pod Architecture topology contains multiple pods, you might want to group those pods into
different sites. The Cloud Pod Architecture feature treats pods in the same site equally.
You can also use the lmvutil command to create and configure a site. See “Managing Sites,” on page 43.
Prerequisites
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Decide whether your Cloud Pod Architecture topology should include sites. See “Creating Cloud Pod
Architecture Sites,” on page 9.
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Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture feature. See “Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature,” on
page 15.
Procedure
1 Log in to the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the pod
federation.
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