Omnissa Horizon
| Omnissa Horizon | |
|---|---|
| Other names | VMware Horizon, VMware Horizon View, VMware View, VMware Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM) |
| Original author | VMware |
| Developer | Omnissa |
| Stable release | 2506.1 - 8.16.0 - Build Number: 17145568083
/ August 22, 2025 (2025年08月22日)[1] |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, macOS |
| Available in | English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese [2] |
| Type | Desktop virtualization |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Omnissa Horizon (formerly called VMware Horizon, VMware Horizon View, VMware View) is a commercial desktop and app virtualization product originally developed by VMware, Inc for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems.
It was first sold under the name VMware Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM), but with the release of version 3.0.0 in 2008 it was changed to "VMware View". The name was updated to "Horizon View" with the launch of version 6 in April 2014[3] [4] and then referred to as "VMware Horizon" to represent desktop and app virtualization.
Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware in November 2023, and then in May 2024 spun out the End-User Computing division, including Horizon, into a standalone entity called Omnissa pending the sale to KKR.[5] [6] [7]
Features
[edit ]Omnissa Horizon provides virtual desktop and app capabilities to users utilizing VMware's virtualization technology. A desktop operating system - typically Microsoft Windows - runs within a virtual machine on a hypervisor. VMware Horizon product has a number of components which are required to provide the virtual desktops, including:
- VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi with a vSphere license)
- VMware vCenter Server (management of virtualization environment)
- View Composer (advanced View management, with automation and cloning)
- View Manager (administration of the View Environment)
- View Client (communication between View and the desktop OS)
- VMware ThinApp (application virtualization)
- View Persona Management (user profile management)
- vShield Endpoint (offloaded desktop antivirus)
Although VMware licenses vSphere hypervisor per physical CPU-socket,[8] it licenses VMware View per concurrent desktop.[9] The bundled hypervisor, vSphere for Desktops, is functionally equivalent to vSphere Enterprise Plus.[10]
VMware View has two licensing options, Enterprise and Premier. Enterprise comes with vSphere for Desktops, vCenter Server, and View Manager, and has an MSRP of 150ドル per concurrent desktop. View Composer, Persona Management, vShield Endpoint, and ThinApp are included in the Premier edition at an MSRP of 250ドル per concurrent desktop.[9]
In order to transport the desktop resources to users, keyboard, video, mouse and other interactions travel over a network connection. VMware View supports the VMware Blast Extreme, Microsoft RDP, and the Teradici PCoIP [11] protocols.
Horizon Client
[edit ]| Omnissa Horizon Client | |
|---|---|
| Other names | VMware Horizon Client, VMware Horizon View Client, VMware View Client |
| Original author | VMware |
| Developer | Omnissa |
| Stable release | 2503
|
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, ChromeOS |
| Available in | English, German, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Spanish |
| Type | Desktop virtualization, Thin client |
| License | Commercial, proprietary with open-source bits[12] |
| Website | customerconnect |
Users establish client connections to VMware View sessions by running the VMware View Client, through a web browser using HTML5,[13] or using a thin client that supports the protocols in use. The VMware View client supports Windows, macOS, Android, and Linux, while ChromeOS is able to connect through the web browser.
Ubuntu 12.10 can login to VMware View desktops directly from the login screen.[14]
Versions
[edit ]Horizon
[edit ]Version release history:
- VMware View 3.1.3 (May 5, 2009)
- VMware View 4 (November 9, 2009)
- VMware View 5.1 (May 16, 2012)
- VMware View 5.1.1 (August 16, 2012)
- VMware View 5.1.2 (December 13, 2012)
- VMware View 5.1.3 (March 14, 2013)
- VMware View 5.2 (October 4, 2012)
- VMware View 5.3 (November 21, 2013)
- VMware View 5.3.1 (March 11, 2014)
- VMware View 5.3.2 (June 24, 2014)
- VMware View 5.3.3 (November 25, 2014)
- VMware View 5.3.4 (March 17, 2015)
- VMware View 5.3.5 (September 10, 2015)
- VMware View 5.3.6 (March 1, 2016)
VMware Horizon 6.0 (June 19, 2014)
- VMware Horizon 6.0.1 (September 9, 2014)
- VMware Horizon 6.0.2 (December 9, 2014)
- VMware Horizon 6.1 (March 12, 2015)
- VMware Horizon 6.1.1 (June 4, 2015)
- VMware Horizon 6.2 (September 3, 2015)
- VMware Horizon 6.2.1 (December 8, 2015)
- VMware Horizon 6.2.2 (February 4, 2016)
- VMware Horizon 6.2.3 (July 21, 2016)
VMware Horizon 7.0 (March 22, 2016)
- VMware Horizon 7.0.1 (June 16, 2016)
- VMware Horizon 7.0.2 (September 15, 2016)
- VMware Horizon 7.0.3 (December 8, 2016)
- VMware Horizon 7.1 (March 16, 2017)
- VMware Horizon 7.2 (Jun 20, 2017)
- VMware Horizon 7.3.2 (November 20, 2017)
- VMware Horizon 7.4 (Jan 04, 2018)
- VMware Horizon 7.5 (May 29, 2018) This is the first Extended Service Branch (ESB). ESBs will receive three planned periodic Service Updates (SPs) – 6 months, 9 months and 15 months after the base version release.
- VMware Horizon 7.5.1 (July 19, 2018)
- VMware Horizon 7.6 (Sep 6, 2018)
- VMware Horizon 7.7 (Dec 13, 2018)
- VMware Horizon 7.8 (March 14, 2019)
- VMware Horizon 7.9 (Jul 02, 2019)
- VMware Horizon 7.10 (Sep 17, 2019) This is an ESB release.
- VMware Horizon 7.11 (Dec 12, 2019) VMware announces that Horizon Administrator (FLASH based) will be deprecated in early 2020. VMware recommends using Horizon Console (HTML5 based).
- VMware Horizon 7.12 (March 17, 2020)[15]
- VMware Horizon 7.13 (Oct 15, 2020) This is the last significant release of Horizon 7. The end of general support for Horizon 7 is March 2021.
- VMware Horizon 7.13.1 (May 25, 2021)[16]
VMware Horizon 8.0 (Announced Aug 6, 2020)[17]
VMware Horizon 8[18]
| Version | General Availability | End of General Support | End of Technical Guidance | ESB Release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2020年08月11日 | 2025年08月11日 | 2027年08月11日 | |
| 2012 | 2021年01月07日 | 2024年01月07日 | 2025年01月07日 | |
| 2103 | 2021年03月23日 | 2024年03月23日 | 2025年03月23日 | |
| 2106 | 2021年07月15日 | 2024年07月15日 | 2025年07月15日 | |
| 2111 | 2021年11月30日 | 2024年11月30日 | 2025年11月30日 | |
| 2203 | 2022年01月07日 | 2025年01月07日 | 2026年01月07日 | |
| DaaS On Prem 9.1 | 2021年01月07日 | 2024年01月07日 | 2025年01月07日 | |
| 2206 | 2022年07月19日 | 2025年07月19日 | 2026年07月19日 | |
| 2209 | 2022年10月20日 | 2025年10月20日 | 2026年10月20日 | |
| 2212 | 2023年01月12日 | 2026年01月12日 | 2027年01月12日 | |
| 2303 | 2023年03月30日 | 2026年03月30日 | 2027年03月30日 | |
| 2306 | 2023年07月06日 | 2026年07月06日 | 2027年07月06日 | |
| 2309 | 2023年10月26日 | 2026年10月26日 | 2027年10月26日 | |
| 2312 | 2024年01月23日 | 2027年01月23日 | 2028年01月23日 | Yes[19] |
| 2406 | 2024年07月25日 | 2027年07月25日 | 2028年07月25日 | Yes |
| 2412 | 2024年01月28日 | 2027年01月28日 | 2028年01月28日 | No[20] |
| DaaS 9.2.0 | 2023年04月27日 | 2026年04月27日 | 2027年04月27日 | |
Legend: Unsupported Supported Latest version Preview version Future version | ||||
Horizon Client
[edit ]The Client software is known as Client Agent Release Train (CART). CART it is on a separate release cycle than VMware View/Horizon but often coincides with it.
Horizon Clients
- CART 5.0 (Mar 18, 2019)
- CART 5.1 (Jul 02, 2019)
- CART 5.2 (Sep 17, 2019)
- CART 5.3 (Dec 12, 2019)
- CART 5.4 (March 17, 2020)
- CART 5.5 (Oct 15, 2020)
Horizon Clients - Naming convention changed to denote the year and month of build release
- CART 2006 (Aug 11, 2020)
- CART 2009 (Oct 15, 2020)
- CART 2012 (Jan 07, 2021)
- CART 2103 (Mar 23, 2021)
- CART 2106 (Jul 15, 2021)
- CART 2111 (Nov 29, 2021)
- CART 2203 (Apr 04, 2022)
- CART 2206 (July 19, 2022)
- CART 2209 (Oct 20, 2022)
- CART 2212 (Jan 12, 2023)
- CART 2303 (Mar 31, 2023)
- CART 2306 (July 10, 2023)
- CART 2309 (Oct 26, 2023)
- CART 2312 (Jan 21, 2024)
References
[edit ]- ^ "Omnissa Horizon 8 Release Notes". Omnissa Documentation. Omnissa, LLC. Retrieved 22 Aug 2025.
- ^ "Horizon 8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)". Omnissa Tech Zone. Omnissa, LLC. Retrieved 24 Mar 2025.
- ^
"VMware Announces General Availability of VMware View 3, with Ground-Breaking Advances in Managing, Scaling and Personalizing Virtual Desktop Environments". VMware News Release. Palo Alto: VMware. 2008年12月02日. Retrieved 2010年08月12日.
PALO ALTO, Calif., December 2, 2008 – VMware Inc. [...] today announced the general availability of VMware View 3 [...]
- ^
Dignan, Larry (2014年04月09日). "VMware's Horizon 6 launches, targets Citrix". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2014年04月16日.
Horizon 6 consolidates a few VMware applications.[...] VMware View becomes Horizon View.
- ^ "Introducing Omnissa, the former VMware End-User Computing business". Omnissa. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "Omnissa official launch with close of KKR acquisition". www.omnissa.com. Retrieved 2025年01月06日.
- ^ "End User Computing (EUC) transition to Omnissa". Broadcom. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "vSphere" . Retrieved 2023年12月22日.
- ^ a b "VMware Horizon View 5 - Deliver Desktop Services from Your Cloud for End-User Freedom & IT Control". Archived from the original on 2013年08月12日.
- ^ Mallempati, Raj (3 August 2011). "Desktop Virtualization with vSphere 5: Licensing Overview (Update 8/3/11)". VMware End-User Computing Blog . Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- ^ "VMware Announces Strategic Licensing and Co-development Agreement with Teradici for True Remote PC User Experience Further Bolstering its vClient Initiative" . Retrieved 2023年12月22日.
- ^ "OSS Licenses and Disclosure packages for VMware Horizon clients" . Retrieved 2019年04月29日.
- ^ "Ericom's HTML5 VDI Client for VMware View – Bet... |VMware Communities". communities.vmware.com. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 2018年05月07日.
- ^ Sneddon, Joey (12 September 2012). "Ubuntu 12.10 Login Screen Adds Remote Desktop Access". OMG! Ubuntu!. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Release Notes for VMware Horizon 7 version 7.12". VMware. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ "Release Notes for VMware Horizon 7 version 7.13.1". VMware. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ "VMware Horizon 8 Announcement and Pricing and Packaging Updates (80146)". Knowledge Base. VMware. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ "Omnissa Lifecycle Matrix". docs.omnissa.com. Retrieved 2025年03月24日.
- ^ "Omnissa Horizon 8 Release Notes". docs.vmware.com.
- ^ "Omnissa Horizon 8 Release Notes". docs.omnissa.com. Retrieved 2025年01月30日.
Further reading
[edit ]- Keith Schultz (December 14, 2011) VDI shoot-out: Citrix XenDesktop vs. VMware View. Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 and VMware View 5 vie for the most flexible, scalable, and complete virtual desktop infrastructure, InfoWorld
- Keith Schultz (December 14, 2011) VDI shoot-out: HDX vs. PCoIP. The differences between the Citrix and VMware remote desktop protocols are more than skin deep, InfoWorld