Also from a licencing standpoint, this makes the most sense. Doing this allows you to spin up the vCenter server in parallel with your hosts, and makes your host/cluster configuration much simpler. You can then upgrade the second host to a vDS, get everything working, migrate the vCenter VM to that host and configuration, and then upgrade the first and other hosts. But you really shouldn’t do this if you’re on a single host, if your vCenter server is running there. You can then import and migrate the vSS to vDS configuration. You’ll need to configure the vCenter somewhere first – perhaps on local storage, perhaps on NAS/SAN utilizing vSS, etc. If you’re planning on utilizing vDS, you can’t simply configure the hosts prior to the vCenter. You’ll need to have a working host(s), with connectivity to storage, etc. If you do this, consider that you’ll basically be configuring this environment as a “greenfield”. You’ll need to consider where these are going to live. You are going to require a number of supporting Horizon Suite infrastructure servers.For example if that group is “VMware vCenter Admins” will it now become “VMware vCenter Admins – Infrastructure”?

O Consider your naming, and how it interacts with your existing Server/Infrastructure environment.

You may wish to consider creating a group like “VMware vCenter Admin – View”.

What AD group(s) will be added to vCenter for administration? Small environments might utilize “Domain Admins” or “Enterprise Admins”.

Will your installation utilize a service account? If so, your installations should all be run logged in AS that account.

Will your View vCenter be Linked-More or completely segregated?.

Will you be using a unified Single Sign On environment?.

The following questions will need answers: We’ll need to review some basic design plans for this environment. This is largely for my own benefit and lab, to better understand the environment and concepts, as well as having a sample environment to test in. I’m going to be doing a series of documents on how to build a general VMware Horizon View 6 Proof of Concept.

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