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In the following scenarios, create the Horizon Adapter instance on a remote collector node.
Large-scale installation (over 5,000 desktops)
To improve scalability and offload processing from cluster data nodes, create the adapter
instance on a remote collector node.
Remote data centers
To minimize network traffic across WAN or other slow connections, deploy a remote collector
node in each remote data center. Create an adapter instance on each remote collector node
and pair each instance with the broker agent that is located in the same data center.
High availability (HA)
vRealize Operations for Horizon does not support HA. If a failover occurs, broker agents that
are paired with the adapter instance on a primary node cannot automatically connect to the
instance on the replica node. To prevent communication interruptions, create the adapter
instance on a remote collector node.
Broker Agent
The vRealize Operations for Horizon broker agent is a Windows service that runs on a Horizon
Connection Server host. It collects Horizon inventory information and sends that information to the
Horizon Adapter.
The broker agent runs on one Horizon Connection Server host in each Horizon pod in your
environment. Each pod can contain only one broker agent.
You must configure the broker agent to collect events from the event database and send them
to the Horizon Adapter. You can optionally configure the broker agent to monitor the desktop
pools, application pools, App Volumes AppStacks, and Unified Access Gateway appliances in your
Horizon environment.
Desktop Agent
The vRealize Operations for Horizon desktop agent runs on each desktop source in your Horizon
environment. It collects metrics and performance data and sends them to the Horizon Adapter.
The desktop agent is installed as part of Horizon Agent. The following table lists the version of the
desktop agent included in each version of Horizon Agent.
Note vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.7 does not include updates to the desktop agent. The
latest desktop agent is version 6.6.
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