Horizon 8 Architecture Design Elements and Planning Guidelines for Remote Desktop Deployments

This chapter discusses architecture design elements and planning guidelines that includes key details about requirements for memory, CPU, storage capacity, network components, and hardware to give IT architects and planners a practical understanding of what is involved in deploying a VMware Horizon 8 solution.

For details on how to architect a VMware Horizon 8 deployment, see the "VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Reference Architecture" document available at https://techzone.vmware.com.

Important: This chapter does not cover the following topics:

Architecture design for hosted applications	A VMware Horizon 8 pod can support farms of Microsoft RDS hosts, where each farm contains RDS hosts. For more information, see the Windows Desktops and Applications in Horizon 8 document. If you plan to use virtual machines for RDS hosts, also see RDS Host Virtual Machine Configuration.
Architecture design for View Agent Direct-Connection Plugin	With this plugin running on a remote virtual machine desktop, the client can connect directly to the virtual machine. All the remote desktop features, including PCoIP, HTML Access, RDP, USB redirection, and session management work in the same way, as if the user had connected through the connection broker. For more information, see the Horizon Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In document.