A manual farm consists of RDS hosts that already exist. The RDS hosts can be physical, vSphere virtual machines (excluding instant clones), or non-vSphere virtual machines. You manually add the RDS hosts when you create the farm.
Note: Starting in Horizon 8 version 2412, Horizon 8 on WorkSpaces Core supports creating manual farms for delivering multi-session desktops and published applications. Microsoft Windows Server 2019, 2022, and 2025 are the supported operating systems, and you can either use an Amazon Public Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Server bundle or provide the operating system yourself.
Before you create a manual farm, you must prepare existing RDS hosts for Horizon 8.
What to read next
- When using Amazon WorkSpaces Core, start with Creating and Preparing Sources for Pools and Farms and follow that page's information for server operating systems.
- When using physical, vSphere VMs, or non-vSphere VMs other than Amazon WorkSpaces Core, start with Setting Up Remote Desktop Services Hosts.
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