Deploying Unified Access Gateways on AHV

Now that Omnissa is supported in AHV, it’s time to get our hands dirty to test things out. These instructions are for deploying or replacing a UAG in AHV.

1. Download the latest UAG from the Omnissa Support Portal
https://customerconnect.omnissa.com/dashboard

2. Click on ‘My Products’

3. Click on Download next to ‘Horizon Advanced – Concurrent User’

4. Click on ‘Go to Downloads’ next to the licensed Horizon version

5. Scroll down to find “Unified Access Gateway (UAG) <YYMM> for vSphere, AWS, Google Cloud and Nutanix (Non-FIPS)

6. Click on ‘Download Now’

7. Save the file

8. Find ‘Unified Access Gateway (UAG) <YYMM> PowerShell Scripts in the website

9. Click on ‘Download Now’

10. Save and extract the zip file

11. In PowerShell, run the following command:
Expand-7zip <filename>.ova
*if Expand-7zip doesn’t exist, install it with this command: install-package 7zip4powershell

12. Upload the file as an image in Prism Central

13. In the UAGDeploy folder that was unzipped, find the file uag15-ntnx.ini

14. Edit the file and make the following changes:

15. Enter the network information for the new UAG

16. Enter the Prism Central connection information, cluster name, image (the file that we uploaded into Nutanix) and subnet name

17. Save the file as <UAG Name>-<YYMM>.ini in the \uagdeploy directory

Deploy the VM:

18. Open PowerShell and cd to the \uageploy directory

19. Run the following command:
.\uagdeployntnx.pss1 <UAGName-<YYMM>.ini

20. Enter the Prism Central admin credentials

21. Enter the UAG root credentials

22. Enter the UAG admin credentials

23. Wait for the deployment to complete

At this point, you should be able to browse to https://<UAG.IP>:9443 and log in with the admin account

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