VmWare Horizon - how best to spread out apps on farms for load balancing?

[alderwoolf]

I work in a team that installs apps to the horizon farms at Cardiff University.

VMWare Horizon is still very much a new tool for us and we don't have a lot if experience yet.

We have 8 farms.

My question is how best can we decide on how apps should be distributed on the farms for load balancing purposes- are there guidelines for deciding this?

At the moment we simply look at what the apps does, its size and guess its likely demand on resources (simple or more complicated) and then try to spread them out equally on the farms.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Mike

[yukiafronia]

Hi, @alderwoolf (Mike)

For RDSH farms, the load balancing method distributes sessions among multiple virtual machines in the farm.

For example, imagine the following configuration

Example
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Farm Name: PublishApp-Test
Number of virtual machines to deploy: 3
Cloning method: Instant Clone
Automatic clone
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In the Horizon Console, click on "Applications."
You should be able to choose which application from the RDS farm you have created (PublishApp-Test) to serve to your users.

When the above configuration is employed, when a user connects to an application,
session will go to one of the three deployed virtual machines.

As the number of users increases, the resources of the virtual machines will also be squeezed,
The Connection Server will automatically direct the user who connects later to establish a session on one of the deployed virtual machines that has more resources available.

Sorry for the very confusing explanation.

The administrator can set multiple parameters to control how sessions to virtual machines in the farm are load balanced, so we strongly recommend that you also check the VMware documentation.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon/2212/virtual-desktops/GUID-461B7E5E-183B-4AA0-AB87-A76D07F... 

Thanks.