VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon - 6.2 Installation Manual
VMware vRealize Operations for
Horizon Installation
vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.2
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Contents
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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
Support for Oracle Databases that Provide Horizon Events 12
Installing and Configuring vRealize Operations for Horizon 13
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Downloading the vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation Files 13
Install and Configure vRealize Operations for Horizon 13
Install the vRealize Operations for Horizon Solution 15
Adding a vRealize Operations for Horizon License Key 15
Associate Horizon Objects with Your vRealize Operations for Horizon License Key 16
Create an Instance of the Horizon Adapter 17
Install the vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent 19
Configure the vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent 19
Verify Your vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation 21
Install the vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent 22
Upgrade vRealize Operations for Horizon 23
Index 25
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VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation provides information about installing, configuring, and
troubleshooting VMware vRealize™ Operations for Horizon®.
Intended Audience
This information is intended for anyone who wants to install and configure
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 configurable dashboards, and on
predefined pages in vRealize Operations Manager.
IT administrators can use vRealize Operations for Horizon to quickly obtain an overview of how the
Horizonenvironment 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
configuration, 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. If you need to create multiple Horizon adapter instances, you must create
each adapter instance on a unique cluster node or remote collector.
IMPORTANT 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 preconfigured Horizon
dashboards in the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.
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