Architectural overview

So, let's take a look at the architecture and how session-based desktops work when compared to the standard View virtual desktop machine brokering. In terms of architecture, delivering desktop sessions is pretty much the same as delivering remote applications.

Horizon View acts as the broker, but instead of brokering a virtual desktop machine that is running on the ESXi host server or an RDSH published application, it is now brokering a desktop session that is running on a Microsoft Windows Server. This server is configured with the RDS role and a number of customizations and policies to make the Windows Server GUI interface look more like that of the Windows 8 desktop operating system.

The following diagram gives you an outline of the architecture:

So, how does the architecture work? Basically, in exactly the same way as we have already discussed in Chapter 8, Delivering Remote Applications with View Hosted Apps, but now we are delivering remote desktop sessions rather...