VMware vRealize Operations Installation Manual
VMware vRealize Operations for
Horizon Installation
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.3
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation
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Contents
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation 5
Introducing vRealize Operations for Horizon 7
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vRealize Operations for Horizon Architecture 8
Horizon Adapter 8
vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent 9
vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent 9
System Requirements for vRealize Operations for Horizon 11
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Product Compatibility for vRealize Operations for Horizon 11
Software Requirements for vRealize Operations for Horizon 11
Supported Guest Operating Systems 12
Support for Oracle Databases that Provide Horizon Events 12
Installing and Conguring vRealize Operations for Horizon 15
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Downloading the vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation Files 15
Install and Congure vRealize Operations for Horizon 15
Install the vRealize Operations for Horizon Solution 17
Adding a vRealize Operations for Horizon License Key 17
Associate Horizon Objects with Your vRealize Operations for Horizon License Key 18
Create an Instance of the Horizon Adapter 19
Install the vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent 21
Congure the vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent 22
Verify Your vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation 24
Install the vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent 24
Upgrade vRealize Operations for Horizon 26
Upgrade vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter 26
Upgrade Desktop Agent 28
Upgrade Broker Agent 28
Remove Adapter Instance 29
Uninstall the Broker Agent and Desktop Agent 29
Index 31
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VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation provides information about installing, conguring, and
troubleshooting VMware vRealize™ Operations for Horizon®.
Intended Audience
This information is intended for anyone who wants to install and congure
vRealize Operations for Horizon.
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Introducing
vRealize Operations for Horizon 1
vRealize Operations for Horizon collects performance data from monitored software and hardware objects
in your Horizon environment and provides predictive analysis and real-time information about problems in
your Horizon infrastructure.
vRealize Operations for Horizon presents data through alerts, on congurable dashboards, and on
predened pages in vRealize Operations Manager.
IT administrators can use vRealize Operations for Horizon to quickly obtain an overview of how the
Horizon environment is behaving and view important metrics associated with that environment. Help desk
specialists can view objects related to end user sessions, perform basic troubleshooting, and resolve user
problems.
This chapter includes the following topics:
“vRealize Operations for Horizon Architecture,” on page 8
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“Horizon Adapter,” on page 8
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“vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent,” on page 9
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“vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent,” on page 9
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VDI, Remote desktop,
VM, or RDS host
View Connection
Server host
Database server
View events
database
Broker agent
Events
Desktop agent
Desktop metrics:
PCoIP, CPU, memory, disk,
session information
vSphere metrics:
ESXi, VM,
datastore,
datacenter
vCenter Server
View
adapter
VMware
adapter
vRealize Operations Manager
vApp deployment
Objects, metrics, relationships,
KPIs, alerts, views and reports
View
dashboards
vRealize Operations Manager
user interface
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vRealize Operations for Horizon Architecture
The vRealize Operations for Horizon components include the Horizon adapter, broker agent, and desktop
agents.
Figure 1‑1. vRealize Operations for Horizon Architecture
Horizon Adapter
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The Horizon adapter runs on a cluster node or remote collector node in vRealize Operations Manager. You
can create a single Horizon adapter instance to monitor multiple Horizon pods. During broker agent
conguration, you pair the broker agent with a Horizon adapter instance.
If you are monitoring multiple Horizon pods, you can pair the broker agent installed in each pod with the
same Horizon adapter instance as long as the total number of desktops that the Horizon adapter instance
handles does not exceed 10,000 desktops. If you need to create multiple Horizon adapter instances, you
must create each adapter instance on a unique cluster node or remote collector.
I Creating more than one Horizon adapter instance per cluster node or remote collector is not
supported.
The Horizon adapter obtains Horizon inventory information from the broker agent and collects metrics and
performance data from desktop agents. The Horizon adapter passes this data to
vRealize Operations Manager for analysis and visualization where it appears precongured Horizon
dashboards in the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.
Chapter 1 Introducing vRealize Operations for Horizon
If your Horizon environment resembles one of the following congurations, VMware recommends that you
create the Horizon adapter instance on a remote collector node.
Large-scale Horizon
installation with more
than 5,000 desktops
Remote datacenters
To improve scalability, create the Horizon adapter instance on a remote
collector node to ooad processing from the vRealize Operations Manager
cluster data nodes.
To minimize network trac across WAN or other slow connections, install a
remote collector node with a separate Horizon adapter instance in remote
datacenters. Pair each Horizon adapter instance with the broker agent that is
located in the same remote datacenter.
vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent
The vRealize Operations for Horizon desktop agent runs on each remote desktop virtual machine, or RDS
host in your Horizon environment. It collect metrics and performance data and send that data to the
Horizon adapter.
In Horizon with View 6.0.x or Horizon 6.1 and Horizon 6.2 environments, the desktop agent is installed as
part of the View Agent installation. vRealize Operations for Horizon desktop agent 6.3 agent is bundled
with Horizon agent 7.0.1.
vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent
The vRealize Operations for Horizon broker agent is a Windows service that runs on a Horizon Connection
Server host, collects Horizon inventory information, and sends that information to the Horizon adapter.
If your Horizon environment includes an events database, you must congure the broker agent to collect
events from the database and send them to the Horizon adapter. You can optionally congure the broker
agent to monitor only specic desktop pools in your Horizon environment.
You install the broker agent on one Horizon Connection Server host in each Horizon pod in your
environment. You must install only one broker agent in each Horizon pod.
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