The benefits of Horizon 8 include simplicity, security, speed, and scale for delivering virtual desktops and applications with cloud-like economics and elasticity.
Flexible Horizon 8 Deployments
Horizon 8 offers the flexibility of deploying virtual desktops and applications on premises, in a cloud-hosted environment, or a hybrid mix of both. License requirements vary based on the deployment environment.
You can deploy Horizon 8 in the following environments.
On-premises Deployment
Horizon 8 can be deployed on-premises or in a private cloud. You can use a perpetual, term or SaaS subscription license for an on-premises deployment. With a SaaS subscription license, you will have access to the Omnissa Horizon Control Plane and associated services. Internet connectivity is optional so you can deploy Horizon 8 in an air-gapped environment or a sovereign cloud.
Cloud-hosted Deployment
Horizon 8 can be deployed in a public cloud such as VMware Cloud on AWS or Azure VMware Solutions. You are required to use a SaaS subscription or term license for deployment in a public cloud. With the SaaS subscription license, you also have the option to leverage the SaaS services provided by the Horizon Control Plane.
Hybrid Deployment
You can deploy Horizon 8 on-premises and in cloud-hosted environments. You can link these deployments in a federation. In this hybrid deployment scenario, you can use the following licenses:
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Use a perpetual, term, or SaaS subscription license for your on-premises deployments, and use a SaaS subscription or term license for your cloud-hosted deployments.
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Use a SaaS subscription or term license for both your on-premises deployments and your cloud-hosted deployments.
Connecting Horizon 8 Deployments to Horizon Control Plane
With the SaaS subscription license, you can connect Horizon 8 pods to the control plane for additional SaaS services.
Horizon Control Plane (enabled by the SaaS subscription license) provides the following benefits when connected to a Horizon 8 deployment.
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The Omnissa Horizon Universal Console provides a single unified console that provides additional SaaS features across on-premises and multi-cloud deployments for working with your tenant's fleet of cloud-connected pods.
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The single pane dashboard and Workspace One Intelligence console gives you the ability to monitor capacity, usage, and health within and across your fleet of cloud-connected pods, regardless of the deployment environments in which those individual pods reside.
Additional SaaS services are enabled on an ongoing basis. For information on available services, see Using Horizon Cloud - next-gen.
Just-in-Time Management Platform (JMP)
JMP represents Horizon 8 capabilities for delivering just-in-time virtual desktops and applications that are flexible, fast, and personalized. JMP includes the following technologies.
Instant Clones
Instant clone is a vSphere-based cloning technology that is used to provision thousands of non-persistent virtual desktops from a single golden image. Instant-clone desktops offer the following advantages:
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Rapid provisioning speed that takes 1-2 seconds on average to create a new desktop.
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Delivers a pristine, high performance desktop every time a user logs in.
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Improves security by destroying the desktop every time a user logs out.
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Eliminates the need to have a dedicated desktop for every single user.
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Zero downtime for patching a pool of desktops.
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You can couple instant clones with Omnissa App Volumes and Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager to deliver fully personalized desktops.
App Volumes
App Volumes is an integrated and unified application delivery and user management system for Horizon 8 and other virtual environments. App Volumes offers the following advantages:
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Quickly provision applications at scale.
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Dynamically attach applications to users, groups, or devices, even when users are already logged in to their desktop.
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Provision, deliver, update, and retire applications in real time.
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Provide a user-writable volume, allowing users to install applications that follow across desktops.
Dynamic Environment Manager
Dynamic Environment Manager offers personalization and dynamic policy configuration across any virtual, physical, and cloud-based environment. Dynamic Environment Manager offers the following advantages:
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Provide end users with quick access to a Windows workspace and applications, with a personalized and consistent experience across devices and locations.
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Simplify end user profile management by providing organizations with a single and scalable solution that leverages the existing infrastructure.
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Speed up the login process by applying configuration and environment settings in an asynchronous process instead of all at login.
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Provide a dynamic environment configuration, such as drive or printer mappings, when a user launches an application.
Reliability and Security
Horizon 8 provides the following reliability and security advantages to your virtual desktop and app deployment:
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Access to data can easily be restricted. Sensitive data can be prevented from being copied onto a remote employee's home computer.
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RADIUS support provides flexibility when choosing among two-factor authentication vendors. Supported vendors include RSA SecureID, VASCO DIGIPASS, SMS Passcode, and SafeNet, among others.
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Integration with Omnissa Access means that end users have on-demand access to remote desktops through the same web-based application catalog they use to access SaaS, Web, and Windows applications. Users can also use this custom app store to access applications inside a remote desktop,. With the True SSO feature, users who authenticate using smart cards or two-factor authentication can access their remote desktops and applications without supplying Active Directory credentials.
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Omnissa Unified Access Gateway functions as a secure gateway for users who want to access remote desktops and applications from outside the corporate firewall. Unified Access Gateway is an appliance that is installed in a demilitarized zone (DMZ). Use Unified Access Gateway to ensure that the only traffic entering the corporate data center is traffic on behalf of a strongly authenticated remote user.
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The ability to provision remote desktops with pre-created Active Directory accounts addresses the requirements of locked-down Active Directory environments that have read-only access policies.
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Data backups can be scheduled without considering when end users' systems might be turned off.
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Remote desktops and applications that are hosted in a data center experience little or no downtime. Virtual machines can reside on high-availability clusters of servers.
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Virtual desktops can also connect to back-end physical systems and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) hosts.
Tight Integration with the Virtualization Ecosystem
VMware vSphere/VMware Cloud Foundation
You can use Horizon 8 with VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX to extend the power of virtualization with virtual compute, virtual storage, and virtual networking and security to drive down costs, enhance user experience, and deliver greater business agility. You can take your deployment onto a public cloud such as VMware Cloud on AWS or VMware Azure Solutions.
VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) is a unified, AI-powered self-driving IT operations management platform for private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Horizon customizes the power of Aria Operations for Horizon environment and enables you to monitor the performance and capacity of the remote desktops and applications in the data center and managed services of Horizon 8.
For more information, see "VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Horizon" in the VMware Aria Operations for Integrations Documentation on https://techdocs.broadcom.com/.
You can also use additional management software such as Avi Networks and Carbon Black.
Nutanix AHV
Nutanix AHV is a bare-metal hypervisor integrated within the Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform. It can be deployed on-premises or operated in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) across public cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS. It offers a simplified and efficient approach to managing virtual environments.
Nutanix Prism Central serves as the management control plane, providing a centralized console for managing multiple Nutanix clusters. For a Horizon 8 deployment, Nutanix AHV provides the capacity required to run end-user resources, such as desktops, and the management servers required to deliver the service.
Rich User Experience
Horizon 8 provides the familiar, personalized desktop environment that end users expect, including the following features:
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A rich selection of display protocols
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Ability to access USB and other devices connected to their local computer
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Send documents to any printer their local computer can detect
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Real-time audio/video features
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Authentication with smart cards
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Use of multiple display monitors
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3D graphics support
RESTful APIs
Horizon 8 RESTful APIs automate the deployment, operation, management, monitoring, reporting, and analytics for the Horizon 8 infrastructure, workloads, and integration with third-party products. You can use these APIs to perform the following functions:
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Desktop pool management
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Virtual machine and farm management
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Publishing applications
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Entitling published applications
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Infrastructure discovery
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Monitoring and troubleshooting
To get the latest documentation for the Horizon RESTful APIs:
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Install or Upgrade to the latest released version of Omnissa Horizon Connection Server.
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Navigate to https://<CS-IP//FQDN>rest/swagger-ui.html from any browser.
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Click Select a spec from the top right of the browser. Select Latestto see the latest version of APIs. Select Default to view all versions of all APIs.
For more information about Horizon 8 RESTful APIs, see the RESTful APIs available at https://developer.omnissa.com/.
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