A building block is a logical construct and can contain a certain number of virtual machines. A building block consists of physical servers, a vSphere infrastructure, Horizon 8 servers, shared storage, and virtual machine desktops for end users. The scalability of each block depends on how many virtual machines you deploy per vCenter Server.
| Item | Example |
|---|---|
| vSphere clusters | 1 |
| 80-port network switch | 1 |
| Shared storage system | 1 |
| vCenter Server | 1 (can be run in the block itself) |
| Database | MS SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL database server (can be run in the block itself) |
| VLANs | 3 (a 1 Gbit Ethernet network for each: management network, storage network, and VMotion network) |
If you have only one building block in a pod, use two connection broker instances for redundancy.
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