You must install Horizon Agent on an all non-vSphere machines. VMware Horizon cannot manage a non-vSphere machine unless Horizon Agent is installed.
To install Horizon Agent on multiple Windows physical computers without having to respond to wizard prompts, you can install Horizon Agent silently. See Install Horizon Agent Silently.
Prerequisites
- Verify that you have prepared Active Directory. See the Horizon Installation document.
- Verify that you have administrative rights on the non-vSphere machine.
- To use a non-vSphere Windows Server machine as a remote desktop rather than as an RDS host, perform the steps described in Prepare Windows Server Operating Systems for Desktop Use.
- Familiarize yourself with the Horizon Agent custom setup options for non-vSphere machines. See Horizon Agent Custom Setup Options for Non-vSphere Machines.
- Familiarize yourself with the TCP ports that the Horizon Agent installation program opens on the firewall. See the Horizon Architecture Planning document for more information.
- If the machine has the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package installed, verify that the version of the package is 2005 SP1 or later. If the package version is 2005 or earlier, you can either upgrade or uninstall the package.
- Download the Horizon Agent installer file from the VMware product page at http://www.vmware.com/go/downloadview.
Procedure
Results
The Horizon Agent service is started on the non-vSphere machine and the machine is registered with Horizon 8.
What to do next
Use the registered non-vSphere machine to create a manual desktop pool. See Create a Manual Desktop Pool.
After the pool is created, you can edit the pool.
Note: When you reconfigure a pool setting that affects a registered machine, it can take upto 10 minutes for the new setting to take effect. For example, if you change the
Automatically logoff after disconnect setting for a pool,
Horizon 8 might take up to 10 minutes to reconfigure the affected machines.