Connecting the VMware Horizon Deployment to the Horizon Control Plane

VMware Horizon offers the flexibility of deploying virtual desktops and applications on-premises, in a cloud-hosted environment, or a hybrid mix of both.

Regardless of where your virtual desktops and applications are running, you can optionally connect your VMware Horizon instance to the Horizon Control Plane and access the following services and benefits.

• The Horizon Cloud Administrator Console provides a single unified console across on-premise and multi-cloud deployments for working with your tenant's fleet of cloud-connected pods.
  Note: For multi-location pods, Horizon assigns the deployment type of the connection server as the pod type and the location of the connection server as the pod location.
• The Horizon Universal Broker is the cloud-based brokering technology used to manage and allocate virtual resources from multi-cloud assignments to your end users.
• The Cloud Monitoring Service (CMS) is one of the central services provided in Horizon Control Plane. The CMS gives you the ability to monitor capacity, usage, and health within and across your fleet of cloud-connected pods, regardless of the deployment environments in which those individual pods reside.
• The Horizon Image Management Service is a cloud-based service that simplifies and automates the management of system images used by desktop assignments, such as desktop pools and farms, across your cloud-connected Horizon 8 pods.

Horizon Control Plane is enabled with a subscription license. You must also use the Horizon Cloud Connector virtual appliance to connect your VMware Horizon deployment with the Horizon Control Plane. For more information about the subscription license, see "Enabling VMware Horizon for Subscription Licenses and Horizon Control Plane Services" in the Horizon 8 Installation and Upgrade document.

The Horizon Overview and Deployment Planning document provides an overview and requirements of deploying VMware Horizon. For information about Horizon Control Plane, see Introduction to Horizon Cloud in the Horizon Cloud Service documentation.