VMware Horizon View utilizes multiple ports in order to broker a connection between a View client and a View desktop or Microsoft Windows Terminal Server. In addition, how the connection is made from the View client to the desktop or terminal server differs based on the tunneling configuration of the View Connection Server.
The default configuration of a View Connection Server treats PCoIP and RDP connections differently:
Upon successful login, View client connections that utilize PCoIP will connect directly to the View desktop
Upon successful login, View client connections that utilize RDP will be tunneled through the View Connection Server to the View desktop or terminal server
There are multiple reasons why you should tunnel internal View client RDP connections through a View Connection Server—the default setting—even in cases where those connections are made internally.
Tunneled RDP connections will be secured using...