Horizon Pod and Block Design Methodology : 5.1 Deployment Models
   
5.1 Deployment Models
Pod and block methodology is an architecture model (see the following figure) often used in enterprise deployments of Horizon 7. The Pod and block architecture model can be adapted from an enterprise deployment, to a service provider managed implementation. In this case, each tenant would represent a resource block, each block delineated by their own vCenter Server, and one or more vSphere clusters providing desktop and application resources, in addition to VMware vSAN™ storage and NSX networking.
Figure 7. VMware Horizon Pod Example
 
Note It is critical that a single “Pod” resides on the same well-connected LAN / data center, and it must not span a wide area network (WAN). This is so that the message bus, which leverages JMS (see Section 6.1.1.4, Message Bus), is not hindered with high latency. For multi data center deployments, use Cloud Pod Architecture. (See Section 5.2, Cloud Pod Architecture.)