Horizon Advanced with vSAN for Desktop - Server workloads

[Stewaters]

Hi,

We have 100 user license of Horizon Advanced which enables us to use vSAN for desktop.  I have read the VMware licensing whitepaper that states we can only run desktop workloads using this license, but my question is can we also put the Horizon Connection and Composer servers as well as vCenter on the vSAN datastores or do they have to be on separate storage?

Thank you

[heldstma · Accepted solution]

Stewaters-

Look at this document on page 8

https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-62-licensing-guide.pdf

Scenario 2: 8-host Virtual SAN cluster running 100 virtual desktop workloads in a primary data center. 100 Virtual SAN for Desktop per-VM licenses would likely be the best choice although it is possible to license this cluster with per-CPU Standard or Advanced licenses. The virtual servers that support virtual desktops (e.g. Horizon View Connection Server) can also run on this cluster even if Virtual SAN for Desktop licenses are used. Note: Virtual SAN Advanced licenses for virtual desktop workloads are included with Horizon Advanced and Enterprise licenses.

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Matt Heldstab

[heldstma]

The same statement is in the below document in the same location (page 8).

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-65-licen...

[Stewaters]

Thank you.

I swear I had read that document but I must have skimmed that section.