Install the Horizon Mirage System

You must install the Horizon Mirage components in the specified order.

Prerequisites

Verify that all hardware and software prerequisites are fulfilled, that you have a valid license for the

system, and that the latest version of the Horizon Mirage software is downloaded from the support site.

Verify that the SQL server is installed and reachable. The SQL browser service must be started to allow

remote connections. Verify that firewall settings allow remote connections on the SQL server host. Go to

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc646023.aspx.

Verify that antivirus software running on the server machine excludes Horizon Mirage server folders

and processes from scanning.

Server folders, including the Mirage storage volumes and the local cache directory, for example,

C:\ProgramData\Wanova Mirage\LocalCache.

Server processes, for example, Wanova.Server.Service.exe.

Prepare the required database information, or install a new database instance to use with

Horizon Mirage.

NOTE You must have dbcreator privileges to create the Horizon Mirage database in the SQL express

database. If you do not have these privileges, ask the database administrator to create the database and

then assign you as the database creator.

Procedure

1 Install the Horizon Mirage Management Server

The Horizon Mirage Management server is the main component that controls and manages the

Horizon Mirage server cluster.

2 Install the Horizon Mirage Management Console

The Horizon Mirage Management console is the graphical user interface used to perform scalable

maintenance, management, and monitoring of deployed endpoints. You install the Management

console after you install the Horizon Mirage Management server. The Management console is built as

a Microsoft Management Console version 3.0 snap-in.

3 Connect the Console to the Horizon Mirage System

After you install the Horizon Mirage Management console, you can connect the console to the

Horizon Mirage system.

4 Install a Horizon Mirage Server 
The Horizon Mirage server manages the storage and delivery of base and app layers and CVDs to
clients, and consolidates monitoring and management communications. After you install and license
the Horizon Mirage Management server, you can install Horizon Mirage servers.

5 Install IIS and the Horizon Mirage File Portal
You must install Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 and the Horizon Mirage file portal
on your Horizon Mirage server so that end-users can view files in their CVD snapshots from a Web
browser.

6 Managing Horizon Mirage Software Licenses 
The Horizon Mirage Management server requires a license. The license file enforces the number of
CVDs that you can run on your system and the duration of the license agreement.

7 Configure the Environment for Endpoints 
You must perform a minimum configuration before you can attach endpoints to your system.