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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 desktops. If you need to create multiple Horizon adapter instances, you
must create each adapter instance on a unique cluster node or remote collector.
Important 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 preconfigured Horizon
dashboards in the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.
If your Horizon environment resembles one of the following configurations, VMware recommends that you
create the Horizon adapter instance on a remote collector node.
Large-scale Horizon
installation with more
than 5,000 desktops
To improve scalability, create the Horizon adapter instance on a remote
collector node to offload processing from the vRealize Operations Manager
cluster data nodes.
Remote datacenters To minimize network traffic across WAN or other slow connections, install a
remote collector node with a separate Horizon adapter instance in remote
datacenters. Pair each Horizon adapter instance with the broker agent that
is located in the same remote datacenter.
vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent
The vRealize Operations for Horizon desktop agent runs on each remote desktop virtual machine, or
RDS host in your Horizon environment. It collect metrics and performance data and send that data to the
Horizon adapter.
In Horizon with View 6.0.x, or Horizon 6.1/6.2/7.0.1/7.0.x environments, the desktop agent is installed as
part of the View Agent installation. The vRealize Operations for Horizon desktop agent 6.5 agent is
bundled with Horizon agent 7.3.
vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent
The vRealize Operations for Horizon broker agent is a Windows service that runs on a Horizon
Connection Server host, collects Horizon inventory information, and sends that information to the Horizon
adapter.
If your Horizon environment includes an events database, you must configure the broker agent to collect
events from the database and send them to the Horizon adapter. You can optionally configure the broker
agent to monitor only specific desktop pools in your Horizon environment.
You install the broker agent on one Horizon Connection Server host in each Horizon pod in your
environment. You must install only one broker agent in each Horizon pod.
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