VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 8 (2111), and this release is general available from December 2021. This is a major release, so I hope you like this article I put together. VMware have made some huge improvements in this release, which customers/partners are going to benefit from. HINT If you are using Nvidia vGPU driver there is currently no supported driver from NVIDIA to VMware Horizon 8 2111. I have in this article also included the new features of Horizon Cloud service for 2111 IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure. Lets dig into what is new.
What is new in VMware Horizon 8 (2111)
VMware Horizon 8 2111 provides the following new features and enhancements
VMware Horizon Connection Server
VMware Horizon Agent for Linux
VMware Horizon Agent for Windows
VMware Horizon GPO Bundle
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager 2111
VMware Unified Access Gateway 2111
VMware Horizon Clients 2111 for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac, Windows, HTML Access
VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 8 (2106), and this release is general available from August 2021. This is a major release, so I hope you like this article I put together. VMware have made some huge improvements in this release, which customers/partners are going to benefit from. HINT – If you are using Nvidia vGPU driver 13 supports VMware Horizon 8 2106. I have in this article also included the new features of Horizon Cloud service for 2106 IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure. Lets dig into what is new.
What is new in VMware Horizon 8 (2106)
VMware Horizon 8 2106 provides the following new features and enhancements
VMware Horizon Connection Server
VMware Horizon Agent for Linux
VMware Horizon Agent for Windows
VMware Horizon GPO Bundle
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager 2106
VMware Unified Access Gateway 2106
VMware Horizon Clients 2106 for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac, Windows, HTML Access
VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 8 (2103), and this release is for now general available from March 2021. This is a major release, so I hope you like this article I put together. VMware have made some huge improvements in this release, which customers/partners are going to benefit from.
HINT – If you are using Nvidia vGPU (on-prem) there is currently no driver support for Horizon 8 2103.
I have in this article also included the new features of Horizon Cloud service for 2103 IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure.
Lets dig into what is new.
What is new in VMware Horizon 8 (2103)
VMware Horizon 8 2103 provides the following new features and enhancements
VMware Horizon Connection Server
VMware Horizon Agent for Linux
VMware Horizon Agent for Windows
VMware Horizon GPO Bundle
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager 2103
VMware Unified Access Gateway 2103
VMware Horizon Clients 2103 for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac, Windows, HTML Access
The new offerings have new enhanced GPU capability with the HPE Proliant m750 and providing a dedicated GPU from NVIDIA more specific the NVIDIA P1000 or NVIDIA T4. The solution requires no hypervisors and lowers complexity while enabling the mobility of users and enhancing user experience. This solution is designed to meet the requirements of power users such as designers, architects and visualizers that require high performance with reduced physical footprint, and targeted towards 1-499 users.
Challenges with CAD workstations today
Engineers are chained to desk
Not flexible with getting compute as they need
No scalable solution
Data requires to be copy down from network locations and can take long time
Data requires to be modified quickly and takes long time with synchronising−Engineers can’t work on any device
Transforming high end workspace to current working style
Benefits of replacing physically BIM workstations with HPE remote workstations.
Move physically workstation to a central location and unchain engineers for their desk
Work from Home−Centralizing compute
Benefit of a scalable GPU solution
Benefit from central datacenter performance accessing the CAD/BIM files
IT Security and IP Protection
Providing mobility to work from any device such as tablet
Providing engineers/designers a great dedicated and guaranteed user experience
Expanding the bare metal VDI family
HPE now have 3 hardware solutions and its 3 different form factors.
HPE Moonshot 1500
HPE Edgeline EL4000
HPE Edgeline EL8000 / EL8000t
HPE now supports VMware Horizon on all Moonshot/Edgeline solutions with bare metal but also running virtualised with VMware ESX & VMware Horizon.
I am proud to share that I was interviewed as part of HPE announcement of the new Bare Metal VDI for Engineering & BIM workstations; see the above video where you can see the new HPE Moonshot/Edgeline offerings and also a customer sharing their experience.
VMware Horizon supporting Bare Metal
VMware has been supporting bare metal setup for a while actually let’s dig into the facts.
VMware Horizon RDSH has been supporting Bare metal since Horizon 6, which is 6.5 years.
VMware PCoIP has been supporting +10years with host card for bare metal
VMware Blast for VDI has been supporting Bare metal for the last 2 years and have been supporting Windows 1803 or 1809.
The big news is that as of today, officially, HPE is supporting VMware Horizon on bare metal in HPE Moonshot and Edgeline. It used to be only Citrix that was positioned the last 7 years and this changes today, which I am really excited about as the platform becomes more open as it should and can benefit customers in the world.
HPE Edgeline and VMware Horizon 8 Architecture
Let’s dig in to the architecture.
HPE Edgeline and VMware Horizon show in the below picture you can use VMware Horizon cloud, but it’s also fully supported with onprem VMware Horizon infrastructure if you have a requirement for that. You can use a thin client from HP T740 which is the best hardware thin client on the market that also can decode multiple 4K monitors without any user experience gets impacted. The great thing about below archictecture is you can have 4 physical workstation’s in 1U centralised in your datacenter or edge location without compromising user experience with virtualising. The power of bare metal is you get exactly what the hardware can deliver. Now that said, if you wanna virtualise below hardware, you can do that with no issues and it is fully supported as well.
VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 8 (2006), and this release is for now general available from August 2020. This is a major release, so I hope you like this article I put together. VMware have made some huge improvements in this release, which customers/partners are going to benefit from.
HINT – If you are using Nvidia vGPU (on-prem) I highly recommend you upgrade to NVIDIA vGPU 11, as this is supporting VMware Horizon 8 (2006). I have in this article also included the new features of Horizon Cloud service for IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure.
Lets dig into what is new.
What is new in VMware Horizon 8 (2006)
VMware Horizon 8 provides the following new features and enhancements
VMware Horizon Connection Server On-Premises
VMware Horizon Agent for Linux
VMware Horizon Agent for Windows
VMware Horizon GPO Bundle
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager 2006
VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.10
VMware Horizon Clients 2006 for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac, Windows, HTML Access
VMware Horizon Cloud services:
VMware Horizon Cloud Service v3 (Azure, AWS, On-prem)