A VMware Horizon Cloud Pod consists of an integrated set of Horizon pods, which may or may not be located within the same datacenter, and which clients are entitled to, and can, access as if it were a single pod. Prior to the introduction of the Cloud Pod feature, each pod was entitled and accessed separately, which made it difficult to deploy a multi-site Horizon architecture that appeared as a single pod to Horizon clients.
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Cloud Pods are mostly used with floating assignment desktop pools or application pools. If you use dedicated assignment pools, be aware that once a user has been assigned a desktop, they will always return to that desktop for subsequent client connections. This would negate most of the reasons why we use Cloud Pods, which are meant to provide access to Horizon resources across multiple sites or pods, using methods that are transparent to Horizon clients.
In a traditional VMware Horizon implementation, each pod is managed independently. With...