Now that we have looked at some of the reference architectures, it's time to turn our attention to some of the components that are part of that architecture, namely our vSphere virtualization platform, and look at some of the high-level considerations for your design.
In this book, we aren't going into the intricacies of how to install and configure ESXi hosts. However, we will briefly discuss the recommendations on how you should configure vCenter Server, as well as the hosts and clusters for your Horizon environment.
It is technically possible to run your Horizon View and virtual server environments from one set of infrastructures, with one vCenter Server, and one or more ESXi clusters. By doing this, you could create several points of contention and a lot of difficulty during the time of upgrades.
As we discussed previously, there are...