Unlike vSphere PowerCLI, VMware Horizon View does not include a standalone installer that is used to remotely manage Horizon View using PowerCLI. The PowerCLI commands will only work when executed from a Connection Server. To enable remote management, we must enable Windows Remote Management (WinRM) on at least one Connection Server in each pod that we want to manage.

WinRM is based on the WS-Management Protocol, which is a SOAP-based protocol that is used to enable interoperability between hardware and OSs from different vendors. We will use WinRM to establish remote PowerShell connections to a Connection Server; this will enable us to run commands from that server without actually having to log in to the server console.