Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition

Associating users with Horizon sites

In the previous section, we created and configured our Horizon sites, but until we associate users with them, they have no impact on how client sessions are distributed to the Horizon pools in our Cloud Pod. Our goal is to use Horizon site assignments to ensure that clients use locally hosted resources first, but will still be able to use resources in the other data centers if the local one is at capacity or otherwise unavailable.

In the example provided, we have created Active Directory (AD) security groups for the RTP and San Jose offices, and populated each with the accounts of the users who work in those offices. The following steps detail how to associate those security groups with their appropriate ...