VMware Horizon 7 is an enterprise end-user computing platform for delivering virtual desktops and applications, scaling from a handful of desktops to tens of thousands across multiple data centers. Traditional VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) contained a central component called the broker, which is responsible for “brokering” connections to the desktop, tracking the state (logon, logoff, power on, shutdown), in addition to maintaining desktop entitlements through user and group membership. Horizon 7 still retains the desktop broker (Connection Server), but there are many other components that deliver the entire Horizon solution stack.