Jeramy Thompson

In this 4 part series I will walk you through a basic Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop as a Horizon View Instant Clones. This Setup is based on the Following: RHEL 7.5 vSphere 6.5 Horizon View 7.6 In this part we will go though the basics of setting the RHEL 7.5 VM in vSphere. In vCenter right click and create new VM Follow the Wizzard Give the VM a name, I tend to choose names that are easy to Identify the VM Select the compute of where the VM will Live Select the storage Select the compatibility (6.5 is the highest in my case) Make sure you select the OS and Version For the light usage of this VM 2GB of Memory and a 20 GB HD are just fine Make sure to select the ISO for instalation I have found that using 128 MB of video memory has work for me, your results may vary. Also make sure that you have chosen the VMXNET network adapter for your network. Follow the prompts to complete the VM configuration. Once its complete procee...

Welcome to part 2 of deploying Red Had Enterprise Linux as Horizon View Instant Clones. In this section we will go through installing RHEL. As you should have already created the VM in part 1 , go ahead and power on the VM and open a console to the VM (I prefer to use VMware workstation , however a browser is just fine) Once the OS starts make sure to select "Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5", and hit enter. Next you are prompted for your language Next you will be taken to this screen. While its checking the 'Installation source' Make sure to set the Date and Time' Scroll down and click "Instillation Destination", for my super basic install, I chose to let RHEL auto configure partitioning. Click Done at the top left  No change your network settings. For whatever reason RHEL starts with the network disconnected. Update the Hostname at the bottom (easiest is to use the VM name), and click apply. Turn the network on, then click...

Welcome to part 3 of deploying Red Had Enterprise Linux as Horizon View Instant Clones. In this section we will go through customizing RHEL and installing the Horizon Agent. At this point you should have already created the VM in part 1 , and installed RHEL in part 2 , go ahead and power on the VM and open a console to the VM (I prefer to use VMware workstation , however a browser is just fine) Once we have the VM on and we are consoled into the VM we are presented with a login screen. -Note that this shows the user we created during the install, It is optional but we will remove this from our linked clones as we dont want every one logging into the system to see this. Once Logged in you are greeted with the GNOME welcome screen. This would be helpfull if your users were using persistent desktops, however we don't want to see this every time a user logs in so we will disable this as well. Go ahead an open up terminal , and run the following to remove the GNOME wel...

Welcome to part 4 of deploying Red Had Enterprise Linux as Horizon View Instant Clones. In this section we will go through creating the Instant Clone pool and login in. At this point you should have already created the VM in part 1 , installed RHEL in part 2 , and configured RHEL and installed the agent in part 3 . Go ahead and power on the VM and open a console to the VM (I prefer to use VMware workstation , however a browser is just fine) OK we are in the home stretch, open the Horizon administrator, navigate to desktop and click Add. Choose 'Automated Desktop Pool' [Next] Select 'Floating'  [Next]  Make sure 'Instant Clones' is selected  [Next] Give the pool a name, again something easily identifiable always helps  [Next] Do not make any changes here  [Next] Choose a naming pattern Choose the number of Instant Clones you want  [Next] If you are using vSAN configure it here (I am not) [Next] Choose the parent...