Hello Community, greetings from Mexico.
Currently in the organization where I'm working as sysadmin we are looking to virtualize 15 - 20 workstations that are part of our production lines (1 PC per line) al install only a terminal in each production line without anything installed except a connection to the VM in our VMWare infrastructure.
We are asking us if it is necessary to use VMWare horizon for those stations or only create one VM per each workstation that we have and put a PC in each line then use remote desktop to the VM.
I'm in the idea to have one VM per line but our manager wants to know if there are more benefits to use VMware Horizon for that.
Do someone had any experience similar to it? Do you recommend me to use Horizon for this? why?
" virtualize 15 - 20 workstations that are part of our production lines "
What do these do, I don't need specifics, but are they just used for things like office or do they run specialized software that connects to external hardware
they run an specialized software of traceability but they aren't connected to anything except the networking, we want to have them as VMs due they are very critical stations and we don't have proper backups for those computers, if they are in VMware we can use Veeam to backup them, then we can install a single PC in the production line with a remote desktop, if something happen with the PC we can change it quickly.
Now it is necessary Vmware Horizon or only create VMs in vSphere?
Regards
Horizon isn't a necessity, you could use RDP, but horizon would provide a better experience both for users and the people managing it. If this is all an internal network with no security concerns then RDP should be just fine. Take a look at
you should read it all if your interested in setting it up, but look at the first few sections at least to get an idea what horizon and some of the other associated products can help.
