VMware Horizon Series: Installation Prerequisites for VMware Horizon: Part 2

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VMware Horizon Series: Introduction to VMware Horizon: Part 1

As we learned in the last post, VMware Horizon is a virtual desktop infrastructure platform that provides secure access to virtualized desktops and applications from any device.
A basic setup consists of only a few components to be installed. However, as with any solution you put in place, it is very important to prepare your environment before you start building. The better the preparation, the easier it will be to build on top.

These preparational steps are what will be discussed in this post.

General
In this article I will discuss the different components you should have prepared to install and configure a basic on-prem VMware Horizon environment.

The basic on-prem VMware Horizon environment I will discuss in this series consists of:

1 VMware vSphere Environment (vCenter Server + ESXi hosts)
1 VMware Unified Access Gateway Server
1 VMware Horizon Connection Server
1 File Server to store User profile information and Dynamic Environment Manager configuration
1 VMware App Volumes Server
Preperation Steps
VMware vSphere environment
VMware Horizon requires a VMware vSphere environment:

VMware vCenter server is used to create and manage Instant Clone Virtual Desktop pools or Full Virtual Machine desktop pools
VMware ESXi servers are used to host the Virtual Desktops and/or RDS hosts.
The VMware vSphere environment can be dedicated for the VDI environment or can be mixed with your normal (non-VDI related) server workloads.

Read this article to know more…