6.2.1

vRealize Operations for Horizon Architecture
The vRealize Operations for Horizon components include the Horizon adapter, broker agent, and desktop
agents.
Figure 1‑1. vRealize Operations for Horizon Architecture
VDI, Remote desktop,
VM, or RDS host
View Connection
Server host
Database server
View events
database
Broker agent
Events
Desktop agent
Desktop metrics:
PCoIP, CPU, memory, disk,
session information
vSphere metrics:
ESXi, VM,
datastore,
datacenter
vCenter Server
View
adapter
VMware
adapter
vRealize Operations Manager
vApp deployment
Objects, metrics, relationships,
KPIs, alerts, views and reports
View
dashboards
vRealize Operations Manager
user interface
Horizon Adapter
The Horizon adapter runs on a cluster node or remote collector node in vRealize Operations Manager. You
can create a single Horizon adapter instance to monitor multiple Horizon pods. During broker agent
conguration, you pair the broker agent with a Horizon adapter instance.
If you are monitoring multiple Horizon pods, you can pair the broker agent installed in each pod with the
same Horizon adapter instance as long as the total number of desktops that the Horizon adapter instance
handles does not exceed 10,000. If you need to create multiple Horizon adapter instances, you must create
each adapter instance on a unique cluster node or remote collector.
I Creating more than one Horizon adapter instance per cluster node or remote collector is not
supported.
The Horizon adapter obtains Horizon inventory information from the broker agent and collects metrics and
performance data from desktop agents. The Horizon adapter passes this data to
vRealize Operations Manager for analysis and visualization where it appears precongured Horizon
dashboards in the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.
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