6.1 Horizon 7 View Connection Servers
An instance of Horizon (a Pod) consists of Connection Servers which are responsible for the brokering of desktops and applications, entitlements, Tenant Administrator UI (VMware Horizon 7 Administrator) and tracking state change information between all nodes in the Pod.
Figure 12. Connection Server Architecture
As illustrated above, a Connection Server contains gateway services, in addition to the framework and communication components.