
You then receive an email with the link to download the Horizon Cloud Connector as an OVA file. You must have an active My VMware account to purchase a VMware Horizon 8 license from. Horizon Cloud Connector is a required component that bridges your VMware Horizon 8 pods with Horizon Cloud Service. The Horizon Cloud Connector is a virtual appliance that is deployed alongside the VMware Horizon 8 pod and pairs the pod with the Horizon Control Plane. Note: For multi-location pods, Horizon assigns the deployment type of the connection server as the pod type and the location of the connection server as the pod location. Horizon Cloud Connector and Horizon Control Plane can be used for any Horizon pods, whether they are deployed on-premises or in public clouds. For information about those services, see Introduction to Horizon Cloud in the VMware Control Plane documentation. You will receive these keys in an email with the following subject: Welcome to VMware Horizon On-Premises Subscription.Īfter you configure the Horizon Cloud Connector virtual appliance to connect your pod to the Horizon Control Plane, you have the option to leverage the management, features, and workflows that are provided by Horizon Control Plane and which are available to you according to that subscription license.


However, you will receive license keys for vSphere, vCenter Server,ĭynamic Environment Manager with this subscription license. VMware Horizon 8 with this subscription license. VMware Horizon 8 is managed by VMware only after you deploy the Horizon Cloud Connector virtual appliance.

You can optionally use the SaaS services provided by the Horizon Control Plane. If you are using a subscription license, you can enable your VMware Horizon 8 deployment to connect to the Horizon Control Plane.
