Remove a Multi-session Host from a Manual or Automated Farm

You can remove a multi-session host from a manual farm to reduce the scale of the farm, to perform maintenance on the host, or for other reasons. You can also remove a multi-session host from an automated farm, for example, if the host is in an unrecoverable error state.

If users have application or desktop sessions on hosts that you remove, the sessions remain active, but Horizon 8 does not track them. A user who disconnects from a session will be unable to reconnect to it, and any unsaved data might be lost.

Prerequisites

As a best practice, deactivate the multi-session host and ensure that users are logged off from active sessions before you remove a host from a farm.

Procedure

1. In Horizon Console, select Inventory > Farms.

2. Click the farm ID.

3. Select the RDS Hosts tab.

4. Select one or more multi-session hosts.

5. Click Remove from farm.

6. Click OK.