So, what does the architecture look like, and how does the hosted application feature work when compared to virtual desktop machine brokering? In terms of the architecture, delivering hosted applications is handled in pretty much the same way as virtual desktop machines are managed and brokered.
Horizon View acts as the broker, using the same Connection Server, but instead of brokering a virtual desktop machine that would be running on the ESXi host server, it is now brokering an application session that is running on a Microsoft Windows server, configured with the RDSH role and the applications installed on it.
The following diagram gives you a high-level outline of the architecture for delivering hosted applications:
So, how does the hosted application feature work?
To begin with, as with connecting to a View delivered to the virtual desktop machine,...