Deploying Individual Applications Using an RDS Host

You might choose to provide end users with published applications rather than remote desktops. Individual published applications might be easier to navigate on a small mobile device.

End users can access published Windows-based applications by using the same Horizon Client that they previously used for accessing remote desktops, and they use the same Blast Extreme or PCoIP display protocol.

To provide a published application, you install the application on a Microsoft Remote Desktop Session (RDS) host. One or more RDS hosts make up a farm, and from that farm administrators create application pools in a similar manner to creating desktop pools. For farm sizing recommendations see the VMware Knowledge Base (KB) article http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2150348.

Using this strategy simplifies adding, removing, and updating applications; adding or removing user entitlements to applications; and providing access from any device or network to centrally or distributed application farms.