Ensure that your environment meets the requirements for installing the core Horizon 7 components for VDI on Dell EMC VxRail appliances or vSAN Ready Nodes.
This guide assumes that you have met the prerequisites and installed Horizon 7 as detailed in the VMware Horizon documentation.
The Horizon 7 core components require the virtual machines shown in the following table:
Table 2: Virtual machine recommended minimum requirements for Horizon 7 core components
Horizon Connection Server | Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 4 | 16 GB | 40 GB |
Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 4 | 8 GB | 40 GB + 200 GB |
Horizon Security Server | Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 4 | 16 GB | 40 GB |
Horizon Composer Server (for linked clones only) | Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 2 | 8 GB | 40 GB |
Horizon View Agent | Microsoft Windows 10 Create the gold image used to deploy a pool from Horizon 7 on this virtual machine. | Specifications depend on the size of your workload. |
