There are a number of prerequisites that should be addressed prior to installing Horizon Composer:
- At least one configured Horizon Connection Server with a license key installed
- An Active Directory (AD) user account or security group that will be granted the necessary permissions within Microsoft AD and the vCenter Server
- A dedicated host server for Horizon Composer, running a supported host OS
- A static IP address for the dedicated Horizon Composer host server (required only if you are using a dedicated server)
- Local administrator access on the host server
- A supported Horizon Composer database as referenced in Chapter 1, VMware Horizon Infrastructure Overview
- A 64-bit ODBC connection to the Horizon Composer database configured on the Composer host server
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