The VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod overview
A VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod, also known as a federated pod, consists of a set of Horizon View Connection Server instances, shared storage, a database server, and the vSphere and network infrastructures required to host desktop virtual machines.
In a traditional VMware Horizon View implementation, each pod is managed independently. With the Federated Pod Architecture feature introduced in Version 6, you can join together multiple pods to form a single Horizon View implementation called a pod federation.
A pod federation can span multiple sites or data centers and offers the following benefits over the previous single-pod model:
- It centrally manages Horizon View desktops located across multiple data centers.
- The desktop entitlement is managed globally, including the ability to assign desktops based on the location of the Horizon View client.
- It has the ability to balance the Horizon View Client load across multiple data centers using centralized rather...
