
The remainder of this document will introduce each platform, the control plane and associated SaaS services, as well as the key elements that are common to both platforms. Additional products in the Horizon portfolio such as VMware App Volumes, VMware Dynamic Environment Manager, and VMware Workspace ONE Access support both platforms in similar ways.įor a visual depiction of the various deployment scenarios that are achievable with our platforms, see Horizon Agent and Horizon clients are common or shared across the two platforms. For Horizon Cloud on Azure deployment, Horizon Control Plane is the default GUI for administrators to manage their environment. For Horizon 8 deployments, Horizon Control Plane and associated optional SaaS services can be unlocked by SaaS licenses. Horizon Control Plane and Horizon Cloud Services support both Horizon 8 as well as Horizon Cloud on Azure platforms. In addition to and in conjunction with these two platforms, VMware offers a cloud-based control plane ( Horizon Control Plane) and its associated SaaS services (Horizon Cloud Services). It supports the Microsoft Azure native cloud environment.

This DaaS (desktop-as-a-service) platform focuses on delivering virtual desktops and applications in a native cloud environment. This platform, formerly known as "View", "Horizon 7" or sometimes referred to as "Horizon Enterprise" or "Horizon", focuses on supporting delivering virtual desktops and applications in a vSphere-based environment, whether deployed on-premises or in public clouds. VMware Horizon 8 and VMware Horizon Cloud on Azure: Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) products like VMware Horizon enable IT departments to run desktop applications and virtual machines in the data center or. The two main virtual desktop and application platforms are
