Horizon Pod and Block Design Methodology
   
Horizon Pod and Block Design Methodology
A VMware Horizon Pod is a single instance of Horizon (View) that is configured for a cloud tenant. The Pod and block approach is especially useful for implementations that start small, but plan to scale out in the future. For larger implementations, Pod and block allows for massive scale, up to 50,000 concurrent connections across the entire Cloud Pod.
A single resource (desktop) block is delineated by a vCenter Server®, and contains one or more vSphere resource clusters containing virtual desktops or Microsoft RDS (Remote Desktop Session) hosts. A separate management cluster hosts all Horizon server components including:
• vRealize Operations for Horizon
• VMware vCenter Server Appliance™
• VMware Identity Manager™
• Enrollment Server (True SSO)
• VMware App Volumes™ Manager
• Connection Servers
• Security Server (not required if Access Point is used)
• Access Point
• VMware NSX® Manager™
• Microsoft SQL
• Active Directory
• File Servers (User Environment Manager, ThinApp repository, home directory file shares)