Omnissa Horizon View — NSX Security Blueprint

Automates NSX tags, security groups, and Distributed Firewall (DFW) policy for an Omnissa Horizon View (formerly VMware Horizon) VDI deployment.

Application Overview

Omnissa Horizon View provides virtual desktop and published application delivery. This blueprint segments the Horizon infrastructure and desktop pools using NSX micro-segmentation.

Tiers & Tags

Tag	Scope	Purpose
`Horizon\|ConnectionServer`	`AppName`	Horizon Connection Servers
`Horizon\|EnrollmentServer`	`AppName`	Enrollment/True SSO servers
`Horizon\|UAG`	`AppName`	Unified Access Gateways (external access)
`Horizon\|Composer`	`AppName`	Horizon Composer / Instant Clone domain join servers
`Horizon\|VDI`	`AppName`	Virtual desktop pool VMs
`Horizon\|RDSH`	`AppName`	Published application / RDSH session hosts
`Horizon\|Mgmt`	`AppName`	Horizon management / admin jump hosts

Security Groups

Group	Membership Criteria	Purpose
`SG-Horizon-ConnectionServer`	Tag: `Horizon\|ConnectionServer`	Connection Server VMs
`SG-Horizon-EnrollmentServer`	Tag: `Horizon\|EnrollmentServer`	Enrollment Server VMs
`SG-Horizon-UAG`	Tag: `Horizon\|UAG`	Unified Access Gateway VMs
`SG-Horizon-Composer`	Tag: `Horizon\|Composer`	Composer / IC join VMs
`SG-Horizon-VDI`	Tag: `Horizon\|VDI`	Virtual desktop VMs
`SG-Horizon-RDSH`	Tag: `Horizon\|RDSH`	RDSH session host VMs
`SG-Horizon-Mgmt`	Tag: `Horizon\|Mgmt`	Management / admin VMs
`SG-Horizon-All`	All groups above	All Horizon workloads — used in lockdown rules

DFW Policy: `Policy-Horizon`

#	Rule Name	Source	Destination	Service	Action
1	Allow-HTTPS-UAG	Any	SG-Horizon-UAG	HTTPS (443)	Allow
2	Allow-Blast-UAG	Any	SG-Horizon-UAG	Blast (8443, 443)	Allow
3	Allow-UAG-to-CS	SG-Horizon-UAG	SG-Horizon-ConnectionServer	HTTPS (443)	Allow
4	Allow-Client-to-CS	Any	SG-Horizon-ConnectionServer	HTTPS (443), Blast (8443)	Allow
5	Allow-CS-to-VDI	SG-Horizon-ConnectionServer	SG-Horizon-VDI	Blast (22443), PCoIP (4172)	Allow
6	Allow-CS-to-RDSH	SG-Horizon-ConnectionServer	SG-Horizon-RDSH	Blast (22443), RDP (3389)	Allow
7	Allow-SSH-Mgmt	SG-Horizon-Mgmt	SG-Horizon-All	SSH (22)	Allow
8	Allow-Enrollment-CS	SG-Horizon-ConnectionServer	SG-Horizon-EnrollmentServer	HTTPS (443)	Allow
9	Lockdown-Horizon	Any	SG-Horizon-All	Any	Deny

Rule 9 (Lockdown) has Applied To set to SG-Horizon-All to scope the deny to Horizon workloads only.

Files

horizon_view/
├── README.md
├── deploy.py          # Main entry point — orchestrates tags, groups, policy
├── tags.py            # Tag creation logic
├── security_groups.py # Security group creation logic
└── policy.py          # DFW policy and rule creation logic

Usage

python horizon_view/deploy.py \
  --nsx-manager <IP_OR_FQDN> \
  --username <admin_user> \
  --password <password>

Optional flags

Flag	Default	Description
`--dry-run`	False	Print planned changes without applying them
`--verify-ssl`	True	Disable with `--no-verify-ssl` for lab environments

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