Introduction:
The following blog post intent to cover the basic step by step of installation and configuration of VMware Horizon 2212 on-premises LAB environment to understand core components of VMware Horizon 8.
The installation steps are broken into multiple parts, this part cover the high-level architecture and components involved.
1. High Level Horizon 8 Architecture Overview.
2. Horizon 8 VDI infrastructure core components and specification.
The following servers and configuration used in my lab setup, Production deployment refer the VMware’s documentation.
| Sl No | Name of Server | IP Address | Qty | Configuration | Core Service | Version | Remarks | |||
| 01 | BITLABADC01 | 192.168.44.100 | 01 | 2vCPU, 4GB vRAM, 60GB HDD | Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, file share, PKI | Windows Server 2012 R2 STD | Domain Controller | |||
| 02 | BITLABESXI01 | 192.168.44.102 | 01 | 16 vCPU, 32GB vRAM, 400GB HDD | ESXi Server | 7.0.3 | Horizon Management Servers hosting | |||
| 03 | BITLABESXI02 | 192.168.44.103 | 01 | 16 vCPU, 32GB vRAM, 150GB HDD | ESXi Server | 7.0.3 | VDI Workloads Hosting | |||
| 04 | BITLABVCSA01 | 192.168.44.104 | 01 | 2vCPU, 12 GB RAM, | vCenter Appliance | 7.0.3.01300 | vCenter Appliance | |||
| 05 | BITLABCS01 | 192.168.44.105 | 01 | 2 vCPU, 4GB vRAM, 60GB HDD | Horizon Connection Server | Windows 2019 STD | Connection Server Standard | |||
| 06 | BITLABRCS02 | 192.168.44.106 | 01 | 2 vCPU, 4GB vRAM, 60GB HDD | Horizon Replica Server | Windows 2019 STD | Connection Server Replica | |||
| 07 | BITLABAPV01 | 192.168.44.107 | 01 | 4GB vRAM, 2vCPU, 50GB vDisk | App Volumes Manager | Windows 2019 STD | App Volumes Manager | |||
| 08 | BITLABDEM01 | 192.168.44.112 | 01 | 2 vCPU, 4GB vRAM, 60GB HDD | VMware Dynamic Environment Manager | Windows 2019 STD | Dynamic Environment Manager | |||
| 09 | BITLABSQL01 | 192.168.44.114 | 01 | 2 vCPU, 4GB vRAM, 60GB HDD | SQL Server Database | MS SQL 2017 STD | Horizon Events DB, App Volume DB | |||
| 10 | BITLABWIN10-Master | DHCP | 01 | 2 vCPU, 2GB vRAM, 40GB vDisk | Windows 10 VM | Windows 10 x64 | Windows 10 Master Image | |||
| 11 | BITLABWIN10-REF | DHCP | 01 | 2vCPU, 2GB vRAM, 40GB vDisk | Windows 10 VM | Windows 10 x64 | Windows 10 Refence VM for App Stack Capturing | |||
Note:
The above server configuration used in my LAB environment deployment, for production environment deployment follow the VMware’s official sizing recommendations and do through assessment of your environment to have get VDI experience.
I hope you will get basic useful idea from this Lab deployment series, stay tuned for next post Part-2 Installation of Horizon Connection Server.
Thanks,
Kaliyan
SK ITPro 