Outside of the virtual infrastructure components—and by this we mean the VMware specific components—there are several other components or third-party tools and services that Horizon View is reliant on, which we will discuss in the coming sections.
Supporting infrastructure design
Database requirements
Microsoft SQL Server or an Oracle database are key components for View Composer and the View Events database, as well as vCenter. Without the View Composer database being available, View is unable to undertake any provisioning or recompose operations. As such, you might wish to consider the availability of the database server and split the environment up as per the block architecture so that you can use multiple...