This guide provides an introduction to the Omnissa Horizon™ portfolio, including a description of the key platforms in the portfolio, the major features and deployment options, and an overview of how the components are typically set up in a production environment.
The features and capabilities of Omnissa Horizon depend on license editions. For a comparison of feature sets in each edition, see https://www.omnissa.com/horizon-8/.
Introduction to the Omnissa Horizon Portfolio
The Omnissa Horizon portfolio consists of two main virtual desktop and application platforms with additional management products that can be used in conjunction with these platforms to efficiently and securely deliver virtual desktops and applications to end users across many different deployment scenarios.
The two main virtual desktop and application platforms are Omnissa Horizon 8 and Omnissa Horizon Cloud:
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Horizon 8: This platform, formerly known as "View", "Horizon 7" or sometimes referred to as "Horizon Enterprise" or "Horizon", primarily focuses on delivering virtual desktops and applications in a vSphere-based environment, whether deployed on-premises or in public clouds. While Horizon 8 can be used by service providers to build their own DaaS service, it is primarily a customer-managed desktop and application platform.
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Horizon Cloud: This is DaaS (desktop-as-a-service) platform focuses on delivering virtual desktops and applications in a native cloud environment. It currently supports the Microsoft Azure native cloud environment.
In addition to and in conjunction with these two platforms, Omnissa offers a cloud-based control plane (Omnissa Horizon Control Plane) and its associated SaaS services (Horizon Control Plane SaaS Services). Horizon Control Plane and Horizon Control Plane SaaS Services support both Horizon 8 as well as Horizon Cloud platforms. For Horizon 8 deployments, Horizon Control Plane and associated optional SaaS services can be unlocked by SaaS licenses. For Horizon Cloud deployments, Horizon Control Plane is the default GUI for administrators to manage their environment.
Horizon Agent and Omnissa Horizon Clients are common or shared across the two platforms. Additional products in the Horizon portfolio such as Omnissa App Volumes, Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager, and Omnissa Access support both platforms in similar ways.
The remainder of this document will introduce each platform, the control plane and associated SaaS services, as well as the key elements that are common to both platforms.
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