Horizon desktop pools are used to publish and entitle RDS-based desktops to Horizon clients. In this section, we will configure a simple desktop pool based on a pool of Microsoft RDS servers. To create an RDS desktop pool in Horizon, we need to have at least one RDS farm configured in our pod. Refer to Chapter 9, Creating Horizon Application Pools, for the procedures that are used to prepare and deploy an RDS farm.
The following steps outline the procedure for creating an RDS desktop pool. An RDS farm is required before you can create an application pool; in this example, we are using a farm that we created previously:
- Log into the Horizon Administrator console using an account that has administrative privileges.
- Navigate to Catalog | Desktop Pools and click on Add..., as shown in the following screenshot:
- On the Add Desktop Pool page's Type...