For a small desktop deployment, however, there are alternatives.If you are using a subscription license, you can enable your VMware Horizon 8 deployment to connect to the Horizon Control Plane. It's a great product for hundreds to tens of thousands of desktops. It's what I do and have done for about a decade. RDSH requires a lot less training and experience than does Horizon and a lot less day-to-day support. RDSH is a role built into Windows Server that let the server serve desktops or applications (or both). If you're not 100% sold on Horizon yet, I would suggest you give Remote Desktop Services Host a look. I would say the same till that number exceeded 100 or 150. Horizon is a big project and system for 30 to 60 desktops. No reinstallation of ESXi is necessary, you just enter the key(s) into vCenter Server and assign the new key to your hosts. Horizon has its own product keys and includes keys for Desktop Hosts (ESXi with unlimited sockets) and vCenter Server. I believe Horizon is licensed by the number of desktops you plan to deploy. There are a couple of different Horizon licenses that provide various features. Normal server workloads are not allowed but it is solely based on trust. and VDI workload if you choose to apply the vSphere for Desktop license. However, VMware said you are only allow to run management workload like vCenter, AD, DNS.etc. In short, when you buying Horizon Standard, you will have a duplicate sets of vCenter and vSphere Licenses. That's what I understand from the VMware Account Manager. It is available can't be purchased without Horizon bundle. you need to buy more CCU license as your number of users grows. No more vSAN Advanced for Desktop- vRealize Operation for Horizon(if you want to have advanced monitoring for your desktop, now VMware actually reselling ControlUp)įor the Horizon Add on, it is actually meant for the 'top up' of the VDI licenses when you already have the Horizon bundle. Please note that there are some changes to the bundled license in Horizon 8: It is licensed by either Named or Concurrent users however Standard edition only has the Concurrent user option. The licensing for Horizon 8 (recently announced) is actually a bundle of vSphere for Desktop(Equivalent to vSphere Enterprise Plus), vCenter for Desktop, Instant Clone (now available in Standard to replaced Linked-Clone, a great news).

I have deployed Horizon 7 Enterprise for my customer recently.

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