

Take the Horizon Connection Server you are starting with out of your load balancer service so you can perform maintenance.Backup your VMware Horizon Connection Server configuration – if you are running a replicated group (which you should be) you can grab a copy of the configuration from one server out of the replicated group.Uninstall unsupported components (Composer, etc).There is an order of operations to get up and running with the VMware Horiupgrade. VMware Horizon 2006 is all about instant clones.


VMware makes note the components are still included with VMware Horizon 8, however, they do not recommend starting any new environments with Composer and linked clones. View Composer and View Composer Linked Clones and persistent disks are deprecated with the VMware Horirelease.With this release, there are definitely some things to take note of. Before you upgrade to VMware Horizon 8 Connection Servers In this post we will take a look at the VMware Horizon 8 upgrade connection servers to take a look at upgrading to Horizon 2006. I decided to start with my VMware Horizon Connection servers. I wanted to get the new version in the home lab. However, I guess that VMware is keeping the Horizon 8 branding as this is what everyone was expecting for the next release. VMware Horizon 8 is also known as “VMware Horizon 2006”. The versions from this point forward will be in the form of VMware Horizon YYMM. In fact, VMware is rebranding the product now to simply “VMware Horizon”. VMware Horizon 8 represents an evolution of the VMware Horizon product. VMware Horizon 8 has landed as general availability today per the blog post from VMware here.
