AirWatch Hands-on Labs

Create an RDSH Farm

This lesson steps you through the Farm creation wizard. Please note, due to resource and timing constraints in the HOL, it is recommended you cancel the farm creation wizard. A farm has already been created for you to use in other modules of this lab.

Authenticate to the Horizon Admin Console

Launch Browser

From the Desktop of the Main Console, double-click Google Chrome

Navigate to Horizon Console

Select Horizon from the bookmarks bar
Select Horizon-01-NewAdminConsole

User name: administrator
Password: VMware1!
Click Sign in

Create a New Farm

The following steps will guide you through the Farm creation wizard.

Select Farms

Add Farm

Select Add

Choose Farm Type

Be sure Automated Farm is selected
Select Next

Select vCenter Server for Instant Clone Farm

Select vcsa-01a.corp.local

Ignore Informational Page

Select Ignore

Note - The View Storage Accelerator is disabled to due to constraints in the HOL environment. In production implementations it is recommended you enable this feature for optimal performance.

Select Next

Select Next

Storage Optimization

Select Next

Configure Farm Identification and Settings

Enter RDSHFarm02 in the ID field

Review Farm Configuration Options

Scroll down the Identification and Settings page
To learn more about any of the options, simply click the ? next to them
Select Next when you are ready to continue

Provisioning Settings

Enter Farm02- in the Naming Pattern field
Enter 10 in the Max number of machines field. This value defines the upper boundary for instant clone RDS hosts in this farm.
Enter 3 in the Minimum number of ready field. This value defines the number of RDS hosts that will be kept running during a maintenance operation. Performing farm maintenance without taking an outage and affecting end users is a powerful feature of Horizon Apps. More information on maintenance operations can be found in Module 4.
Select Next