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Table Of Contents
- Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture
- Contents
- Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture
- Introduction to Cloud Pod Architecture
- Designing a Cloud Pod Architecture Topology
- Setting Up a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment
- Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature
- Join Pods to the Pod Federation
- Find and Change a Pod Name
- Create and Configure a Global Entitlement
- Create and Configure a Site
- Assign a Home Site to a User or Group
- Test a Cloud Pod Architecture Configuration
- Sample Scenario: Setting Up a Basic Cloud Pod Architecture Environment
- Managing a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment
- View a Cloud Pod Architecture Configuration
- View Pod Federation Health in View Administrator
- View Desktop Sessions in a Pod Federation
- Determine the Effective Home Site for a User
- Add a Pod to a Site
- Remove a Pod From a Pod Federation
- Modifying Global Entitlements
- Remove a Home Site Association
- Disable the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature
- lmvutil Command Reference
- Index
Procedure
1 On any View Connection Server instance in the pod federation, run the lmvutil command with the
--createSite option.
lmvutil --createSite --siteName sitename [--description text]
Option Description
--siteName
Specifies the name of the new site. The site name can contain between 1
and 64 characters.
--description
(Optional) Provides a description of the site. The description can contain
between 1 and 1024 characters.
For example:
lmvutil --authAs adminEast --authDomain domainEast --authPassword "*" --createSite
--siteName "Eastern Region"
2 On any View Connection Server instance in the pod federation, run the lmvutil command with the
--assignPodToSite option to assign a pod to the site.
Repeat this command for each pod that you want to add to the site.
lmvutil --assignPodToSite --podName podname --siteName sitename
Option Description
--podName
Specifies the name of the pod to assign to the site.
--siteName
Specifies the name of the site.
For example:
lmvutil --authAs adminEast --authDomain domainEast --authPassword "*"
--assignPodToSite --podName "East Pod 1" --siteName "Eastern Region"
Assign a Home Site to a User or Group
A home site is the affinity between a user and a Cloud Pod Architecture site. Home sites ensure that users
always receive desktops from a particular datacenter, even when they are traveling. Creating home sites is
optional.
Prerequisites
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Decide whether to assign home sites to users or groups in your Cloud Pod Architecture environment.
See “Configuring Home Sites to Control Desktop Placement,” on page 11 .
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Group the pods in your pod federation into sites. See “Create and Configure a Site,” on page 21.
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Global entitlements do not use home sites by default. When creating a global entitlement, you must
specify the --fromHome option to cause View to use a user's home site when allocating desktops from
that global entitlement. See “Create and Configure a Global Entitlement,” on page 18.
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Become familiar with the lmvutil command authentication options and requirements and verify that
you have sufficient privileges to run the lmvutil command. See “lmvutil Command Authentication,”
on page 43.
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Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture feature. See “Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature,” on
page 15.
Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture
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