Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

Desktop design considerations

You might think that once you have spent your time considering and designing all the elements mentioned earlier, that the hard work is over. Realistically, it has only just begun. Your VDI solution, without the desktops, is just a virtual infrastructure, and the design and functionality of the desktops is critical to a successful implementation. There are a great number of choices we need to make around the design for the desktops within Horizon View. This will be affected by the way the users need to use the desktops and is likely to have a knock-on effect on the way you are going to manage the desktops and the resources the desktops require.

Pool design

You will want to design your desktop pools based on the similarities ...