Part 6 – Deploy Horizon View 8.0 Replica Server

In this blog, we will deploy our Horizon View Replica Server on our production site. A replica server provides HA and load-balancing to the connection server.

Prerequisites

Primary Horizon View Connection should be up and running
VM must be AD Joined
Domain User with Administrator rights

The installation process of the view replica server works on similar lines as the connection server so we will just repeat our previous installation of the connection server.

It’s easy to start by installing the certificate on the horizon server before we install the view software so let’s begin with that.

To Install a certificate on the view server, Open the Certificate MMC console and add certificate services snap in as shown.

One snap in is imported, Select personal and Choose Request new Certificate

Click Next to continue

Click the arrow as shown

Click on Certificate Properties In here we need to ensure we are changing certificate friendly name to “vdm” from the certificate properties tab as this is a mandatory requirement

Ensure the private key is also exportable

Click Enroll to proceed

We will now see the certificate has been enrolled successfully.

Verify the certificate has been enrolled on our system.

Now with the certificate installed, we can now open our connection server install software we downloaded earlier

Click Next to proceed

Accept EULA and click Next

Choose the location to install the software to

From the installation menu, as it’s our first server we select the Horizon Replica Server option and select Install HTML access. Ensure IPV4 is chosen and click Next to continue.

Provide your primary connection server Hostname or IP address in the source server field, in my case, my primary connection server is “horizon1.ash.local.