Setting Up Multi-Session Linux Desktop and Application Pools

You can create published desktop pools and multi-session application pools based on farms of Linux virtual machines that have been configured as multi-session host machines. Each published desktop or multi-session application can support multiple user sessions at a time.

To establish multiple user sessions on a desktop or application, the BlastProxy process receives each connection request from a client and forwards it to a specific process on VMwareBlastServer. The BlastProxy process also forwards data traffic from VMwareBlastServer to the appropriate client.

About Linux Farms, Published Desktops, and Multi-Session Applications

This section describes the entities that you can configure to provide your end users with multi-session Linux desktops and applications.

• Multi-Session Host Machine: You configure a multi-session host machine by following the steps described in Prepare a Linux Machine for Remote Desktop Deployment and ensuring that you install Horizon Agent with the --multiple-session parameter included. You can then add the Linux host machine to a farm.
• Farm: A farm consists of multi-session Linux host machines and serves as the basis for a published desktop pool or multi-session application pool. You can create manual farms and automated instant-clone farms of Linux host machines.
• Published Desktop Pool: A published desktop pool is provisioned from either a manual farm or automated instant-clone farm of multi-session Linux host machines. Each published desktop can support multiple user sessions at a time. Multi-session published desktops require fewer virtual machine resources than single-session virtual desktops. However, multi-session desktops offer more limited support for Horizon 8 features.
• Multi-Session Application Pool: With a multi-session application pool, you can deliver a single application to many users. When you create a multi-session application pool, you deploy an application in the data center that users can access from anywhere on the network. A multi-session application pool runs on either a manual farm or automated instant-clone farm of multi-session host machines.