Use RDS (Remote Desktop Services) hosts for providing published applications and session-based remote desktops to end users.
An RDS host can be a physical machine or a virtual machine. This example uses a virtual machine with the specifications listed in the following table. The ESXi host for this virtual machine can be part of a VMware HA cluster to guard against physical server failures.
| Item | Example |
|---|---|
| Operating system | 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 R2 |
| RAM | 24GB |
| Virtual CPU | 4 |
| System disk capacity | 40GB |
| Virtual SCSI adapter type | LSI Logic SAS (the default for Windows Server 2008) |
| Virtual network adapter | VMXNET 3 |
| 1 NIC | 1 Gigabit |
| Maximum number of client connections total (including session-based remote desktop connections and published application connections) | 50 |
Note: If you configure RDS hosts at the lower end of the resource specifications, you might encounter resource constraints when using all features instead of the default installation.
For more information about RDS host configuration and tested workloads, see the VMware Horizon 6 Reference Architecture white paper at http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-Reference-Architecture-Horizon-6-View-Mirage-Workspace.pdf.
