Horizon Connection Server

Introduction

This software service acts as a broker for client connections. Horizon Connection Server authenticates users through Windows Active Directory and directs the request to the appropriate virtual machine, physical PC, or Microsoft RDS host. Connection Server provides the following management capabilities:

Authenticating users
Entitling users to specific desktops and pools
Assigning applications
Managing remote desktop and application sessions
Establishing secure connections between users and remote desktops and applications
Enabling single sign-on
Setting and applying policies

Review

What is connection Server?
what is Standard and Replica Server?
What is the role of Connection Server?
How to configure Connection server high availability?
what is the impact if one or multiple connection Server failure happens?
Do we need any external database for connection server? If no, where it stores all view pool, AD etc information…
In Connection Server High available environment, how data sync and fail-over happens?
How you can protect / backup connection Server in single connection server environment?

Horizon Connection Server 7.8 Installation

Prerequisites