The Horizon Cloud Connector is a virtual appliance that is deployed alongside the VMware Horizon 8 pod and pairs the pod with the Horizon Control Plane. Note: For multi-location pods, Horizon assigns the deployment type of the connection server as the pod type and the location of the connection server as the pod location. Horizon Cloud Connector and Horizon Control Plane can be used for any Horizon pods, whether they are deployed on-premises or in public clouds. For information about those services, see Introduction to Horizon Cloud in the VMware Control Plane documentation. You will receive these keys in an email with the following subject: Welcome to VMware Horizon On-Premises Subscription.Īfter you configure the Horizon Cloud Connector virtual appliance to connect your pod to the Horizon Control Plane, you have the option to leverage the management, features, and workflows that are provided by Horizon Control Plane and which are available to you according to that subscription license. However, you will receive license keys for vSphere, vCenter Server,ĭynamic Environment Manager with this subscription license. VMware Horizon 8 with this subscription license. VMware Horizon 8 is managed by VMware only after you deploy the Horizon Cloud Connector virtual appliance. Services available through the Horizon Control Plane.Ability to deploy into public clouds with VMware SDDC service such as VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, Google VMware Cloud Engine, and Oracle VMware Cloud Solution.While the perpetual license only allows you to deploy VMware Horizon 8 on-premises or in private datacenters, the VMware Horizon 8 subscription license gives the following additional benefits: The VMware Horizon 8 subscription license provides the same VMware Horizon 8 product components with more flexible deployment options.

VMware Horizon 8 subscription licenses are available through the Horizon universal license, which is available standalone and as part of the Workspace ONE Enterprise bundle.

You must first use the Horizon Cloud Connector virtual appliance to connect your VMware Horizon 8 deployment with the Horizon Control Plane. You can optionally use the SaaS services provided by the Horizon Control Plane.

If you are using a subscription license, you can enable your VMware Horizon 8 deployment to connect to the Horizon Control Plane.

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