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Windows Server is leveraged to host various infrastructure services and applications required for a Horizon VDI environment.
Role or App | Purpose | vCPUs | RAM (GB) | Number of VMs |
Domain controllers | Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, VDI user authentication | 4 | 4 | 2 |
KMS | Microsoft volume license management | 4 | 4 | 1 |
WSUS | Microsoft automated patch management services | 4 | 16 | 1 |
Microsoft SQL server | Database services for WSUS, Horizon application event logs, and so on | 4 | 64 | 1 |
Horizon Connection Server | Manage VDI desktops, pools, and users | 4 | 10 | 3 |
VMware App Volumes | Manage VDI writable volumes and persistent user profile data | 4 | 8 | 1 |
Launchers | Used by login VSI to launch user desktops during test runs (20 desktops are run on each Launcher in this testing) | 4 | 16 | 25 |
There are two additional Windows servers that are physical servers in this environment: