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July 2, 2026

How the Omnissa Horizon 8 Components Fit Together

End users start Omnissa Horizon Client to log in to a connection broker.

In a typical Horizon 8 deployment, the connection broker is the Omnissa Horizon Connection Server, which integrates with Windows Active Directory and provides access to remote desktops hosted on an underlying virtualization platform, a physical PC, or a multi-session host such as Microsoft RDS. Horizon Connection Server also provides access to published applications on a multi-session host.

The high-level example of a Horizon 8 environment below shows the relationships between the major components.

High-level Example of a Horizon 8 Environment

High-level Example of a Horizon 8 Environment

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