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 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.
