May 16, 2015

VMware Horizon™ with View™ - Architecture



View Connection Server
  • View Connection Server streamlines the management, provisioning, and deployment of virtual desktops. As an administrator, you can centrally manage thousands of virtual desktops from a single console. End users connect through View Connection Server to securely and easily access their personalized virtual desktops. View Connection Server acts as a broker for client connections by authenticating and directing incoming user desktop requests.
View Security Server
  • A View security server is an instance of View Connection Server that adds an additional layer of security between the Internet and your internal network. Outside the corporate firewall, in the DMZ, you can install and configure View Connection Server as a View security server. Security servers in the DMZ communicate with View Connection Servers inside the corporate firewall. Security servers ensure that the only remote desktop traffic that can enter the corporate data center is traffic on behalf of a strongly authenticated user. Users can only access the desktop resources for which they are authorized.
View Composer Server
  • View Composer Server is an optional service that enables you to manage pools of “like” desktops, called linkedclone desktops, by creating master images that share a common virtual disk. Linked-clone desktop images are one or more copies of a parent virtual machine that share the virtual disks of the parent, but which operate as individual virtual machines. Linked-clone desktop images can optimize your use of storage space and facilitate updates. You can make changes to a single master image through the vSphere Client. These changes trigger View Composer Server to apply the updates to all cloned user desktops that are linked to that master image, without affecting users’ settings or persona data.

1. View Components
  • View Connection Servers
    • Administrative console for View environment
    • Manages user entitlements to desktop and application pools
      • Integrates with Active Directory
        • Works with View Agent for user session management and Single Sign-On
    • Application entitlement and distribution
      • ThinApp repository on Windows file and print server
      • RDS application pool publishing
    • Works with vCenter Server
      • Provisions virtual machines from templates as needed for desktop resource pools










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