Lab 7: Entitle users to a desktop pool
Objective and Tasks
In this lab, you will entitle users to a desktop pool and test connectivity.
- Log in to the Horizon admin console (Horizon-01a).
- Entitle a user group to a desktop pool.
- Validate desktop pool launch for entitled users/groups.
You may already have launched and be logged into the Horizon admin console.
- Open the Horizon admin console for horizon-01a.
- On your ControlCenter desktop, open the Google Chrome browser.
- Click the bookmark on the bookmark bar for Horizon-01a
- This will connect you to the Horizon administrator console at https://horizon-01a.omnissatraining.com/admin
- Login to the Horizon admin console.
- Username: administrator
- Password : Pa$$w0rd
- Domain: OmnissaTraining
You can entitle both users and user groups to a desktop pool. In this task, you will entitle a user group to the desktop pool, Win11-Site1.
- View the details of a desktop pool
- In the Horizon admin console navigate to Inventory > Desktops
- Click on the entry with an ID of Win11-Site1.
- Start the entitlement wizard.
- Click on the Entitlements button, and select Add Entitlements.
- Select the Users and Groups to entitle.
- Click ADD.
- In the row Name/User Name enter horizon in the right-hand box, and click FIND.
- Tick the box for the row Horizon-Students that is displayed, and click OK.
- Close the entitlement wizard.
- Click OK.
If you still see a warning that No users or groups are entitled to this pool, refresh the page using the circular arrow in the top-right.
You can add multiple entries for different users and groups to an entitlement.
You should always test access and behavior of a desktop pool before giving users access to it.
- Launch the Omnissa Horizon Client.
- From the desktop of ControlCenter desktop, double click the Omnissa Horizon Client icon.
As this is the first time this Horizon Client has connected to this new Horizon 8 pod, you need to add a new server entry to the client.
- Add a new Horizon 8 Pod to the Horizon Client.
- Click on +Add Server.
- Enter the Horizon Connection Server FQDN https://horizon-01a.omnissatraining.com
- Click Connect.
In this lab, you will use the Connection Server FQDN. In a production deployment of a pod with multiple Connection Servers the load balancer virtual IP address or name would be used instead of an individual Connection Server address.
- Login and authenticate with an assigned user from the Horizon-Students group.
- Username: Student1
- Password : Pa$$w0rd
- Click Login.
- Once logged in, you will see a tile for the entitled desktop pool Win11-Site1
- Launch the virtual desktop.
- Click on the 3 dots on the pool tile for Win11-Site1 and click Launch.
- Alternatively you can double-click on the tile.
- Confirm successful desktop launch.
- Ensure the virtual desktop opens successfully and the user is logged into the Windows desktop.
- Verify that the desktop is functioning properly and the user can interact with the environment (login, desktop display, basic functionality).
- Monitor user session from the Horizon admin console.
- Switch back to the ControlCenter desktop and the Horizon admin console tab in the Google Chrome browser.
- Navigate to Inventory > desktops > Win11-Site1
- Select the Machines tab.
- On one of the desktops you will see a Connected User (omnissatraining\student1)
- Scroll to the right and check the Status. The same machine clone should display Connected.
- Logout of the virtual desktop.
- Switch back to the virtual desktop session for Win11-Site1
- Use Windows > Student 1 > Sign out
- Alternatively, you can use the Horizon menubar at the top of the screen, selecting the three dots (...), then Logoff Desktop, and confirm with OK.
- Close the Omnissa Horizon Client.
This confirms that user entitlements, pool provisioning, and connectivity are functioning correctly.
This concludes this lab.
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