As you know its common scenario in the consulting world, you
need to create test plans or scripts (whatever you call it :-)) as part of the
project delivery.
Recently I was working for one of the customers to design
and implement VMware vSphere and Horizon View. I thought it’s worth share some vSphere and Horizon View test cases (plans) here for other fellow
consultants.
Testing requirements:
-
VMware vSphere and Horizon View completely
implemented without any Single Point Of Failure (SPOF) in the design
- A couple of test user accounts which has required
access to vSphere and View environments.
-
Physical or virtual desktop with guest operating
system like Windows 7 or Windows 8.
-
vSphere client installed
-
VMware View client installed ( View client with
local mode is required if transfer server is implemented as part of the
solution)
- The browser on the client system with one of the
following: Chrome 28 or later, Internet Explorer 9 or later, Safari 6 or
later, Mobile Safari on iOS devices running iOS 6 or later, Firefox 21 or later
( These are Horizon View HTML 5 requirements)
-
iPAD with Horizon View client installed
-
Android smartphone with Horizon View client
installed
VMware vSphere Test Plan
Test
name
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Description
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Pass/
Fail
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Comments
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vCenter and WebClient access
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Login to vCenter Server using vSphere
Client and WebClient using SSO user name and normal user to confirm they are
working as expected
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SSL Certificates
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Login to vSphere client and confirm
that no certificates errors presented.
Then login to vCenter server using
Webclient and confirm there is no certificate error on the browser as per
following screenshot.
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vCenter Health Check
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Login to vCenter client and Web client and ensure there are no errors reported in "vCenter Service status" page. You can access Service Status page via Home page of
vSphere Client
|
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Alarms
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Makes sure that there are no Alarms
generated for vSphere hosts
|
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Physical NICs failover
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Unplug or logically disconnect
physical NICs from ESXi host and make sure that there is no impact on ESXi
host, IP storage and VMs connectivity
|
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HBA failover
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Unplug or logically disconnect HBAs
from ESXi host and make sure that there is no impact on datastores connectivity and VMs connectivity
|
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Vmotion / DRS
|
Enter one of the ESXi host into maintenance mode and make sure
that VMs can migrate to another ESXi host without errors and try vmotion one of
the running VMs. As part of the same
test, ensure VMs are moving to ESXi host which is just exit from maintenance
mode
|
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HA
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Shutdown or disconnect one of the
ESXi host and make sure that VMs running on particular host restarts on other
host in the cluster
|
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Resource Utilization
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Login to individual components like
vCenter server, database server, ESXi host and make sure that CPU, memory,
disk utilisation is within an acceptable level
|
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Host Profiles
|
As part of the design/
implementation, if you have configured Host Profiles, make sure that all Host
Profiles are complaint
|
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VMware Horizon View Test Plan
Test
name
|
Description
|
Pass/
Fail
|
Comments
|
Horizon View Health check
|
Login to Horizon View manager and
make sure that no errors in logs/ events page. In other words, no red signals
:-)
|
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Horizon View Connection Server
failover
|
Assuming that you have at least 2
Horizon View connection servers in the environment and configured with load
balanced IP or host name using load-balanced technologies like Citrix
Netscaler, DNS Round Robin, F5 etc..., shutdown or disconnect Standard connection server
from the network and make sure that end
user can connect to Virtual desktop and perform the same step by
disconnecting Replica server from the network. One at a time.
Note: If you have more than 2 View
connection servers, perform the same steps by keeping only one server active
at any given time
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Horizon View Security Server failover
|
Assuming that you have at least 2
Horizon View connection servers in the environment and configured with load
balanced IP or hostname using load-balanced technologies like Citrix
Netscaler, DNS Round Robin, F5 etc..., shutdown or disconnect first View security server
from the network and make sure that end
user can connect to Virtual desktop and perform the same step by
disconnecting second security server from the network. One at a time.
Note: If you have more than 2 View
Security servers, perform the same steps by keeping only one server active at
any given time
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Horizon View Client connection from
iPAD
|
Login to a virtual desktop from iPad
over the internet and make sure that connection is successful
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Horizon View Client connection
from Android smart phone
|
Login to a virtual desktop from Android smartphone over the internet and make
sure that connection is successful
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HTML 5 Access
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Make sure that Horizon View desktop
is accessible on Browser like Internet explorer without using Horizon View client
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Persona management
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Login to Virtual desktop via Horizon
View Client and make sure that the user profile folder has been created in
Persona manager profile repository and other configured features are working
as expected as per design.
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Transfer Server
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Login to Horizon View client with
Local mode and test check-in and check out. Make sure that you can access
virtual desktop in both scenarios without any issues
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Resource Utilization
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Login to individual components like
Horizon connection Server, database server, Transfer server and make sure
that CPU, memory, disk utilisation is within acceptable level
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