Configure VMware Horizon 8 for Published Desktops Delivery

You can enable Horizon 8 to deliver published desktops on existing or new multi-session hosts.

Procedure

1. To configure Horizon 8 to deliver published desktops on existing multi-session hosts, complete the following tasks:
   1. Prepare existing multi-session hosts for Horizon 8.
      • Windows RDS hosts can be physical or virtual machines. See Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts.
      • To configure a Linux-based multi-session host, follow the steps described in Creating and Preparing a Linux Virtual Machine for Cloning. Ensure that you install Horizon Agent with the --multiple-session parameter included.
   2. Create a manual farm. A manual farm consists of multi-session hosts that already exist. You manually add the hosts when you create the farm. See Create a Manual Farm in Horizon.
   3. Create a published desktop pool for the manual farm you created. See Create a Published Desktop Pool.
   4. Entitle users and groups. See, "Entitling Users and Groups" in the Horizon 8 Administration document.
2. To configure Horizon 8 to deliver published desktops on new multi-session hosts, complete the following tasks:
   1. Prepare an RDS host golden image virtual machine. Horizon 8 clones the RDS hosts from this machine as part of the farm creation process. See Prepare an RDS Host Golden Image Virtual Machine.
   2. Create an automated farm. An automated farm consists of RDS hosts that Horizon create as instant-clone virtual machines in vCenter Server. See Create an Automated Instant-Clone Farm in Horizon.
   3. Create a published desktop pool for the automated farm you created. See Create a Published Desktop Pool.
   4. Entitle users and groups. See, "Entitling Users and Groups" in the Horizon 8 Administration document.