Horizon Composer recovery

The same process is used to recover or move Horizon Composer to a new host server. To retain the current settings, all that needs to be restored is the Horizon Composer database and the RSA key container or custom SSL certificate.

Restoring the Horizon Composer database

The Horizon Composer database should be restored using the native Horizon command line tool sviconfig.exe. This tool is located within the install directory of Horizon Composer, which is at the following location on our sample server: D:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware View Composer.

You will need the following information to restore the database:

• The name of your Database Source Name (DSN) connection on the Horizon Connection Server. On our sample server, the name is: Composer_Pod1

• Horizon Composer database username. On our sample server, the name is: composer

• * Horizon Composer database password. On our sample server, the password is: Password123

• The backup file path location of the Backup-2015-1223101427...