vSphere design for Horizon View
Having now looked at some of the reference architectures, it's time to turn our attention to some of the components that are part of that architecture, namely our vSphere virtualization platform and look at some of the high-level considerations for your design.
vSphere design
In this book, we aren't going into the intricacies of how to install and configure your ESXi hosts. However, we will briefly discuss the recommendations on how you should configure vCenter Server, as well as the hosts and clusters within your Horizon View environment.
It is technically possible to run your Horizon View and virtual server environments from one set of infrastructure, with one vCenter Server, and one or more ESXi clusters. By doing this, you could create a number of points of contention and a lot of difficulty during the time of upgrades.
As we have previously discussed, there are two infrastructure areas when it comes to Horizon View, the management block that runs the vCenter...
