Introduction to Multi-session Published Desktops and Applications

With VMware Horizon 8, you can create published desktops associated with a farm of multi-session hosts. You can also deliver a published application to many users by creating application pools. The published applications in application pools run on a farm of multi-session hosts.

A Windows-based farm consists of a group of Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) hosts. With the addition of App Volumes, you can have Windows applications delivered dynamically using published applications on demand to help reduce the number of OS images and RDS farms.

A Linux-based farm consists of a group of multi-session host machines running a supported Linux distribution, as described in Considerations for Linux Farms, Published Desktops, and Published Applications.