Welcome to the VMware Horizon documentation! Learn how to deploy, configure, and use products in the VMware Horizon family, which includes VMware Horizon 8 and Horizon Cloud Service - next-gen.
Whether you're deploying Horizon 8 on premises or in a public cloud SDDC, configuring components in Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, or administrating a hybrid environment spanning both private and public clouds, you get up-to-date documentation with every release.
For architecture diagrams of example VMware Horizon environments, see How the Components Fit Together.
Introducing the VMware Horizon Documentation
For a quick overview of the VMware Horizon documentation, watch this introductory video.
How to Use the Documentation - For Administrators
Use the map above to follow a recommended path through the documentation based on your deployment scenario:
- Scenario: Horizon 8, Not Cloud-Connected
- Scenario: Horizon 8, Connected to Horizon Cloud Service
- Scenario: Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure
How to Use the Documentation - For End Users
To learn how to use Horizon Client, open the client guide for your device:
- If you have the Horizon Client or browser-based HTML Access app open, click Help in the client user interface.
- Or, use the table of contents (TOC) to go to your client guide. On a desktop browser, look for the TOC in the left pane of this page. On a mobile device, click the TOC button ( ).
).For example, you can open pages in the Windows client guide that explain how to connect to a remote desktop or application and work in a remote session.
Scenario: Horizon 8, Not Cloud-Connected
Just want to deploy Horizon 8 with a perpetual or term license and don't need any cloud-based services? Follow this path through the documentation.
- Get started with Horizon Overview and Deployment Planning and understanding Horizon Security.
These guides show you how the VMware Horizon components fit together, how to create a rich user experience, and how to plan for security features such as security protocols and cipher suites for the Blast Secure Gateway.
- Then use Horizon 8 Installation and Upgrade as your guide to install the Horizon 8 server components. To learn about new features, fixed issues, and known problems, see the Horizon 8 Release Notes.
- Continue with the relevant guides to learn how to use the administration console for Horizon 8, install Horizon Agent on Windows virtual machines, and create desktop and application pools.
- Then follow the relevant guides to optimize the source VM for desktop pools, configure remote desktop features and GPOs, set up the web client for end users, and install Horizon Client for Windows or another client platform.
The client guides also cover common procedures such as how to configure VMware Blast options, connect to a remote desktop or application, and work in a remote session. To learn about new features, fixed issues, and known problems in Horizon Client, see the release notes for your client platform.
Scenario: Horizon 8, Connected to Horizon Cloud Service
If you're deploying Horizon 8 and also want to take advantage of the cloud-based monitoring and management features offered by Horizon Control Plane services, use this documentation path.
- Start with Horizon Overview and Deployment Planning and Horizon Security.
- Follow Horizon 8 Installation and Upgrade to install the Horizon 8 server components. To learn about new features, fixed issues, and known problems, see the Horizon 8 Release Notes.
- Activate your Horizon Universal Subscription or Horizon Plus Subscription license. Follow the procedures to deploy Horizon Edge and activate the subscription license.
- Continue with the relevant guides to learn how to use the administration console for Horizon 8, install Horizon Agent on Windows virtual machines, and create desktop and application pools.
- Then follow the relevant guides to optimize the source VM for desktop pools, configure remote desktop features and GPOs, set up the web client for end users, and install Horizon Client for Windows or another client platform.
- To explore day-two operations of Horizon Cloud administration and image management from a single console, see Using VMware Horizon Cloud Service - next-gen. Review the VMware Horizon Cloud Service - next-gen Release Notes for information about the current release.
Scenario: Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure
Deploying the next generation of Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure? Follow this documentation path.
- Get started with Horizon Overview and Deployment Planning and understanding Horizon Security.
- To learn how to deploy the next generation of Horizon Cloud into the latest cloud-first, multi-cloud, pod-less architecture, see Using VMware Horizon Cloud Service - next-gen. Review the VMware Horizon Cloud Service - next-gen Release Notes for information about the current release.
- Then follow the relevant guides to optimize the source VM for desktop pools, configure remote desktop features and GPOs, define feature policies using Active Directory group policy objects (GPOs), set up the web client for end users, and install Horizon Client for Windows or another client platform.
The client guides also cover common procedures such as how to configure VMware Blast options, connect to a remote desktop or application, and work in a remote session. To learn about new features, fixed issues, and known problems in Horizon Client, see the release notes for your client platform.
More Resources
To learn more about Horizon 8 and Horizon Cloud Service, visit the following pages.
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