It’s all well and good that we can host tens of thousands of desktops, but you are probably thinking “What about me? I only want to start with thirty desktops, maybe one hundred, but not thousands!”. This suits organizations of any size hosting their own infrastructure. Horizon 7 on the other hand, which is also designed for massive scale (up to 50,000 sessions in a cloud pod), provides a single tenant architecture for multiple data centers. This makes it attractive to service providers wanting to offer a consumption based desktop model for their customers (OPEX). Horizon DaaS has been built from the ground up to be consumed by multiple tenants. Thanks Ray, that helps a bunch! – Hey, no problem ) Named user or concurrent connection licensingĪs you can see in the table above, they look very similar. Massive scale for thousands of desktops and tentant sites Massive scale for thousands of desktops and tenants This article is aimed at consultants and architects wishing to learn more about the DaaS platform. In fact I remember the day of the announcement because I was working on a large VMware Horizon deployment for a service provider at the time.įor this blog post I’d like to start our comparisons on the fundamental architecture of the Horizon DaaS platform to Horizon 7 which was announced in February 2016.

DaaS was acquired in October 2013 (formerly Desktone). DaaS on the other hand provides the platform of choice for service providers offering Desktops as a Service. I’ve read articles that compare VDI to DaaS but they all seem to skip this evolution of VDI and compare it to the traditional desktop broker of the past. Really… Horizon 7 is the ultimate supercar of VDI compared to what it was a decade ago. Almost a decade later, VMware Horizon is vastly different and it has matured into an enterprise desktop and application delivery platform for any device. Back in 2007 when VMware acquired Propero, which soon became VDM (then View and Horizon), VDI was very much about brokering virtual machines running a desktop OS to end-users using a remote display protocol.

VDI can have very different meanings depending on who you are talking to. Many of you are very familiar with the term Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), but I don’t think the term does any justice to the evolution of the virtual desktop. From a service provider point of view, the Horizon® family of products offers massive scale from both single-tenant deployments and multi-tenanted service offerings. In this two part blog series, I introduce the architecture behind Horizon DaaS and the recently announced Horizon 7.

Deep Dive Comparison of DaaS & VDI Architecture Part 1

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