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Designing the Cloud Pod Architecture Topology
The insurance company designs a Cloud Pod Architecture topology that includes two sites, one for each
region.
Figure 3‑1. Sample Scenario Cloud Pod Architecture Topology
east1.example
East Pod 1
Eastern Region
east2.example east3.example
east4.example east5.example
central1.example
Central Pod 1
Central Region
central2.example central3.example
central4.example central5.example
central6.example
Central Pod 2
central7.example central8.example
central9.example central10.example
Sales A Sales B
Sales A
Sales B
Sales A
Sales B
In this topology, the Eastern region site contains a single pod that consists of five View Connection Server
instances called east1.example through east5.example.
The Central region site contains two pods, each of which contains five View Connection Server instances.
The View Connection Servers in the first pod are called central1.example through central5.example and the
View Connection Server instances in the second pod are called central6.example through central10.example.
Each pod in the topology contains two desktop pools, called Sales A and Sales B, of sales agent desktops.
Initializing the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature
A View administrator runs the lmvutil command with the --initialize option to intialize the Cloud Pod
Architecture feature.
A View administrator can run this command on any View Connection Server instance in a pod. In this
example, the View administrator runs the command on east1.example.
lmvutil --authAs adminEast --authDomain example --authPassword secret123 --initialize
The five View Connection Server instances in the insurance company's Eastern region are now part of a pod
federation.
Joining Each Pod to the Pod Federation
A View administrator runs the lmvutil command with the --join option on each pod in the Central region
to join those pods to the pod federation.
A View administrator can run this command on any View Connection Server instance in a pod. In this
example, the View administrator runs the command for the first pod on central1.example.
lmvutil --authAs adminCentral --authDomain example --authPassword secret123 --join --joinServer
east1.example --userName example\adminEast --password secret123
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