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Overview

VMware Horizon is a centralized desktop virtualization solution that enables organizations to deliver virtualized desktop services and applications to end users from centralized VMware vSphere servers. Horizon has advantages for both end users and IT administrators.

About Core Horizon Components

VMware Horizon Client

VMware Horizon® Client for Windows, Windows 10 UWP, macOS, iOS, Linux, or Android is installed on every endpoint. This enables your end users to access their virtual desktops and published applications from a variety of devices such as smartphones, zero clients, thin clients, PCs, laptops, and tablets.

VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG)

VMware Unified Access Gateway (formerly called VMware Access Point) provides a secure gateway that allows users to access their desktops and applications from outside a corporate firewall. Use UAG for secure external access to internal Horizon desktops and applications. UAG appliances typically reside in a demilitarized zone (DMZ) and act as a proxy host for connections inside your trusted corporate network. The UAG is optional. The Horizon View can work well without this component.

Horizon Connection Server (CS)

The Horizon Connection Server brokers client connections by authenticating users and directing incoming user desktop and application requests. Users connect to a Connection Server to access their virtual desktops and native, virtual, or RDSH-based applications.

About Load balancing for Horizon

The FortiADC D-series family of application delivery controllers (ADC) optimizes the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of enterprise application delivery. FortiADC is like an advanced server load balancer. FortiADC routes traffic to available destination servers based on health checks and loadbalancing algorithms; full-featured FortiADC also improve application performance by assuming some of the server task load. After you have deployed FortiADC, traffic is routed to the ADC virtual server instead of the destination real servers. For Horizon environments, you can load balance for the UAGs or CSs. The simple architecture is listed as Figure 1. This file is focusing on the FortiADC configuration for UAGs and CSs in Horizon View.

Figure 1: Horizon Architecture Overview

Overview

VMware Horizon is a centralized desktop virtualization solution that enables organizations to deliver virtualized desktop services and applications to end users from centralized VMware vSphere servers. Horizon has advantages for both end users and IT administrators.

About Core Horizon Components

VMware Horizon Client

VMware Horizon® Client for Windows, Windows 10 UWP, macOS, iOS, Linux, or Android is installed on every endpoint. This enables your end users to access their virtual desktops and published applications from a variety of devices such as smartphones, zero clients, thin clients, PCs, laptops, and tablets.

VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG)

VMware Unified Access Gateway (formerly called VMware Access Point) provides a secure gateway that allows users to access their desktops and applications from outside a corporate firewall. Use UAG for secure external access to internal Horizon desktops and applications. UAG appliances typically reside in a demilitarized zone (DMZ) and act as a proxy host for connections inside your trusted corporate network. The UAG is optional. The Horizon View can work well without this component.

Horizon Connection Server (CS)

The Horizon Connection Server brokers client connections by authenticating users and directing incoming user desktop and application requests. Users connect to a Connection Server to access their virtual desktops and native, virtual, or RDSH-based applications.

About Load balancing for Horizon

The FortiADC D-series family of application delivery controllers (ADC) optimizes the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of enterprise application delivery. FortiADC is like an advanced server load balancer. FortiADC routes traffic to available destination servers based on health checks and loadbalancing algorithms; full-featured FortiADC also improve application performance by assuming some of the server task load. After you have deployed FortiADC, traffic is routed to the ADC virtual server instead of the destination real servers. For Horizon environments, you can load balance for the UAGs or CSs. The simple architecture is listed as Figure 1. This file is focusing on the FortiADC configuration for UAGs and CSs in Horizon View.

Figure 1: Horizon Architecture Overview