The console's navigation bar's Inventory menu provides access to pages for working with assets that are in your environment's inventory, such as RDSH farms, assignable images and applications, and imported virtual machines (VMs). The image-related options you see in this menu vary depending on the pod types in your pod fleet.
When Your Pod Fleet Consists Solely of Cloud-Connected VMware Horizon Pods
As described in the Horizon Cloud Deployment Guide, such pods are based on Horizon Connection Server software. In this scenario, the Inventory menu displays the Images - Multi-Pod option. This opens the Multi-Pod Images page that provides all the multi-pod-capable image features of the Horizon Image Management Service. These features provide for creating images that are can be shared across multiple pods. See Overview of the Multi-Pod Images Page.
When Your Pod Fleet Consists Solely of Pods Deployed in Microsoft Azure
As described in the Horizon Cloud Deployment Guide, this pod type is based on the Horizon Cloud pod-manager technology. In this scenario, the options shown in the console will vary based on the following criteria:
- All of your pods are at manifest version 2632 or later.
- Your tenant environment is configured to use Universal Broker.
- Your customer account is enabled to use Horizon Image Management Service for pods deployed in Microsoft Azure.
If all of these criteria are met, the Inventory menu shows two options: Images and Images - Multi-Pod. Otherwise, the menu shows only the Images option. These two options are described below.
- Images - Opens the Images page that provides the image-related work flows for publishing an image to a single pod only, and the actions that the system provides for use with such per-pod images. These are the work flows that are described in Convert a Configured Image VM to an Assignable Image in Horizon Cloud and Managing Published Images for Horizon Cloud Pods in Microsoft Azure.
- Images - Multi-Pod - Opens the Multi-Pod Images page that provides all the multi-pod-capable image features of the Horizon Image Management Service. These features provide for creating images that are can be shared across multiple pods. See Overview of the Multi-Pod Images Page.
Note: These features are only available for VDI desktops. For RDSH-type images, use the Images page.
When Your Pod Fleet is a Blend of Horizon Pods and Pod-Manager-Based Pods in Microsoft Azure
When your pod fleet contains both cloud-connected Horizon pods based on Connection Server and pod-manager-based pods in Microsoft Azure, the Inventory menu shows two options: Images and Images - Multi-Pod. These two options are described below.
- Images - Opens the Images page that provides the image-related work flows for publishing an image to a single pod only, and the actions that the system provides for use with such per-pod images. These are the work flows that are described in Convert a Configured Image VM to an Assignable Image in Horizon Cloud and Managing Published Images for Horizon Cloud Pods in Microsoft Azure.
- Images - Multi-Pod - Opens the Multi-Pod Images page that provides all the multi-pod-capable image features of the Horizon Image Management Service. These features provide for creating images that are can be shared across multiple pods. See the Overview of the Multi-Pod Images Page.
Note: For pods in Microsoft Azure, these features are only available for VDI desktops. For RDSH-type images, use the Images page.
