Horizon on The IT Hollow

VMware Horizon Install Guide (part 1)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:38:57 +0000

I recently decided to give VMware Horizon a shot and found the install to be a little confusing so this gives me a good opportunity to lay it all out so that others can try it out for themselves. A big “thank you” goes out to Raj Jethnani for a helping hand with this post. If you’d like to follow him on twitter his link is here: @rajtech

For those of you who don’t know, Horizon is a nifty SAAS platform for you to present thinapp applications too. I could see many organizations benefit from this technology in the near future.

VMware Horizon Install Guide (part 2)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:37:29 +0000

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Configure the Horizon Service

Now that the appliances are setup, it’s time to get busy configuring them. Go to the web address of the Horizon service that you configured (from part 1)

In our case this was http://theithollow.hollow.lab

The first page isn’t very interesting, just begin the wizard.

The second page is almost less interesting, because you have to put in your license key that cost you money. It has to be done, so enter it here.

VMware Horizon Install Guide (part 3)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:36:58 +0000

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In the last part we configured the Horizon Connector, now we’re going to run the setup wizard in order to assign applications and select users.

Horizon Connector Setup Wizard

Let’s begin the setup wizard

Join the domain. Enter the domain name and enter the username and password that has permissions to add a machine to the domain.

VMware Horizon Install Guide (part 4)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:35:34 +0000

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In the last part, we finished setting up the basics of Horizon Connector and the Service Portal.

Now we can login to the Service Portal to assign our applications.

Application Prerequisites

A couple of more prerequisites should be done before we log in.

First, install the Horizon agent on all (or a few test machines) clients that will be using the thinapp packages that are published with Horizon.