The following steps outline how to remove a Horizon pod from a Pod Federation, and disable the Cloud Pod Architecture feature. You do not need to delete the individual pods' desktop or application pools as part of this, but you will need to remove them from any Global Entitlements they are part of:
- Log on to the Horizon Administration console of the Horizon pod you wish to remove from the Cloud Pod.
- Remove any desktop or application pools managed by this pod from the Global Entitlements; this is accomplished using the screen displayed in step 6 of the Creating and configuring a Global Entitlement sections of this chapter; simply click on the pool to remove and click Delete (this does not delete the pool itself; it simply removes it from the Global Entitlement).
- Open the View Configuration | Cloud Pod Architecture window within the console.
- In the Pod Federation pane, click Unjoin..., click OK when prompted, and click OK again when promoted to reload the Horizon Administration console.
This step is only performed if there are currently two or more members of the Cloud Pod.
- In the Pod Federation pane, click Uninitialize..., click OK when prompted, and click OK again when prompted to reload the Horizon Administration console.
To complete, remove the Cloud Pod, and repeat steps 1 through 5 on all Pods in the Cloud Pod until only one pod remains. For the final pod in the Cloud Pod, omit step 4 but perform all remaining steps.
The pod is now operating as a standalone Horizon pod, and the Cloud Pod feature and associated components have been disabled or removed as needed. The remaining members of the Cloud Pod will continue to function as before, even if only one pod remains in the Pod Federation.