This chapter discusses how to enable, configure, and administer a VMware Horizon Cloud Pod. The Cloud Pod feature enables Horizon administrators to deploy multi-site, multi-pod view environments that support cross-Horizon pod user entitlements. Additionally, when deployed in a multi-pod configuration Horizon is capable of supporting up to 200,000 active sessions, or 20 times as many as a single Horizon pod. In this chapter, we will review the concepts behind a VMware Horizon Cloud Pod and cover key areas related to the Horizon Cloud Pod functionality.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• VMware Horizon Cloud Pod overview
• Cloud Pod port requirements and topology limits
• Configuring a Cloud Pod
• Configuring and associating users and groups to Horizon sites
• Creating Global Entitlements for Horizon desktop and application pools
• Updating Global Entitlements
• Determining the effective Horizon site for a user
• Monitoring connections to Cloud Pod Global Entitlements