On the Horizon: What Is VMware Horizon? Part 3

VMware Horizon is a virtualization software product for delivering desktops and apps on Windows, Linux, and MacOS systems. It is especially relevant today because so many of us are working remotely. Whether you’re a system administrator or a pizza deliverer, you need easy access to the apps and desktops that help you do your job. And you need that access to be secure.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Philip Sellers

Transcript

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Andy Whiteside: Hello! Wanna welcome to episode 30 of on the horizon. I'm, your host, Andy White Side today is February, 6 2,023. I did another podcast earlier today. Philip and

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Andy Whiteside: I don't know. First time it hit me that it's no longer January, and we're one twelfth of the way through

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Andy Whiteside: the year 2,023

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Andy Whiteside: between that and looking at how old my neck looks on the video.

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Philip Sellers: I was gonna say where where did January disappear, too, because it just seems to have flown back.

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Andy Whiteside: It is amazing. So Phillip Sellers will be Philip as a vmware expert over here at Z. Integr, both on the infrastructure and now on the digital workspace. Vdi side. Phillip. How's it going?

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Philip Sellers: Doing well, Andy, how are you doing today?

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Andy Whiteside: I'm.

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Andy Whiteside: You know I was on vacation last week and

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Andy Whiteside: trying to get caught up. It's gonna be a

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Andy Whiteside: It's gonna be a week or 2 before I feel normal. That's for sure.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, you know, it does seem to pile up, you know, when we're out of the office. But those times are important to for our own self care, so glad to glad that you had a good time, even if it does mean paying a little price on the way back in.

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Andy Whiteside: you know, a week or 2 from now. I will have forgotten all about it on the good side and all about it from the bad side, so it'd be like in the but like I feel like a lifetime ago. Well, Philip, this is our third

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Andy Whiteside: episode covering what is being where horizon

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Andy Whiteside: and and by no means are we gonna cover it all? But I think we talked about. You know the benefits of Vmware Vdi horizon for the administrators and the second episode we talked about the the benefits for the end users. And today we're gonna go over the architecture a little bit. I'm. I'm excited about this because

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Andy Whiteside: no, it's it's evolved a lot since I started learning it, and i'm interested to get your take on what the current architecture for horizon looks like.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, you know I I started out with Vmware View many, many years ago, and horizons just built on that.

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Philip Sellers: and given us a lot of new new things, you know.

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Philip Sellers: Vmware required

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Philip Sellers: air watch a few years ago, and they've taken a lot of the great things from Air Watch and brought them over, and we're going to cover a lot of that today.

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Andy Whiteside: Okay.

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Andy Whiteside: yes, I don't think that when I think air watch, I don't think Horizon, I think workspace. One does it

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Andy Whiteside: t a lot into what they've done on the horizon side

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Philip Sellers: It does. Yeah. So workspace One had this great access, and you know.

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Philip Sellers: deployment model where you could securely connect folks into your infrastructure. And so, being we really used a lot of those underpinnings, and brought that over to horizon to give us the secure connectivity, the per app VPN, and things like that that are part of that modern

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Philip Sellers: workspace approach from Vmware.

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Andy Whiteside: See? That's interesting, because I I guess in hindsight. It makes total sense. That's where that came from. But I did. Had not realized it until

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Andy Whiteside: until you set it.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, it's. It's fun, I mean.

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Philip Sellers: you know, air watch was such a great mature product, and then that became workspace one today, and you it particularly works based on Ue, the user endpoint management suite.

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Philip Sellers: and you know there are so many of the pieces that that they've cross-pollinated you know vmware also had their identity provider for a while and there's some pieces of that that kind of made. Its way in here, too. But

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Philip Sellers: I I I do like to point out that they've done a great job of simplifying things and taking that modular approach

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where you can share these components across the platform.

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Andy Whiteside: And some of that simplification is really just evolved in the last year or 2 where we got away from. Maybe the Pod architecture. Is that true?

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Philip Sellers: It is, you know, in in many ways the horizon deployment model looks a lot like some of their competitors. And so it it's.

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Philip Sellers: It's simplified significantly in in the recent years, and that's also part of the power. I I like to think you know it. It's simplified in a way that it gives us choice in our deployment model, and where we wanted to deploy.

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Philip Sellers: and that just leads to an easier administration experience and a better user experience.

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Andy Whiteside: Right?

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Andy Whiteside: Well, we have listeners. So we're also gonna have this video posted at some point. But

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Andy Whiteside: there's a visual here.

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Andy Whiteside: Do you want to? You want to walk through the visual of what the architecture looks like? You want to go to the individual components. You want to do both. How do you? How do you best think we can explain the architecture around V, and we're horizon today.

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Philip Sellers: Well, there is. There's a great visual, and we'll link to the blog post that we're using today, and so you can go and check that out. It's underneath the section called what are the key architectural components.

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Philip Sellers: but at a high level I think it's easy enough to talk through. We've got

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Philip Sellers: vmware horizon, clients, and they've got great visual here, laptops, phones, tablets, desktops doesn't matter. The horizon client is multi platform. It's available for android Ios mac windows Linux

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Philip Sellers: and

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Andy Whiteside: that component is going to talk to a unified access gateway. So you got You got the workspace clients. Okay, so it's it's an asynchronous solution. You got the back end, which is built away at the build. You got the middle components, and then you've got these endpoint pieces where you have the you know the horizon client. It is it safe to say that anything with an HTML 5 browser also qualifies for a potential horizon client?

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Philip Sellers: It does. Yeah, so that's one of the great innovations that came, and and I I want to say it came out of the end. Where labs as it's? Just a side project, but the HTML 5 interface is also a capability for users to come in. And so you've got a cloud

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Philip Sellers: console where you can kind of come in, and and it's a front door app store like in interface as well.

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Philip Sellers: Or you can take the horizon client and actually get a full featured, You know, customized protocol delivery of the applications very, very

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Philip Sellers: efficiently to your imports.

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Andy Whiteside: Okay.

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah. So in a worst case, scenario HTML: 5 browser on a hotel kiosk gets gets the job done, not not full featured.

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Andy Whiteside: but get it done.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah. And and you know, we we talk about the blast protocol. It it's really efficient. It's really good, and that's one of the key innovations behind the HTML 5 interface. So blast is is one of the key differentiators for the horizon suite.

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Andy Whiteside: he maybe makes sense to go through this list here, and and then we'll reference back up to the diagram. First one is a vmware horizon. Console. Tell us what that is.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah. So this is your primary management interface. This is where you're going to make all of your changes. You're going to configure your servers deployment groups. You set your authentication, and

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Philip Sellers: any particular application, or you know how many sessions you've got at any given time. So it it is your primary management interface for the horizon platform.

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Andy Whiteside: Now, is that hosted by you the the company? Or is it hosted in the cloud somewhere? Where does that live?

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So you've got choices. So Vmware gives you the choice. You can deploy the management, console

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Philip Sellers: and and connect it either to a cloud or an on-prem deployment. So you you have the ability. It is also an HTML 5 interface. So no custom minimum sees and things like that. It runs in a native web. Browser.

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Andy Whiteside: Well, that that certainly comes a long way from the old days, for sure

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Philip Sellers: it does. Yeah, yeah. We we. We've all spent many, many hours in our Msds and our custom management consoles Haven't: we?

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah. When those things break they they're broken.

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Andy Whiteside: Glad that's gone. The next section talks about the client. I think You've covered that well enough. Anything additional about

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Andy Whiteside: client comments to make.

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Philip Sellers: No, and you called out the primary differentiator, and that's the HTML 5 client. And so You've got the native clients that that use the native horizon protocols.

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Philip Sellers: You've also got the HTML 5. So it it's great, because it gives choice. You know one of the great things about horizon is, it opens up the market for delivering to things like chromebooks

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Philip Sellers: where you can't necessarily have the full featured client. So it gives a another layer of choice for academic settings that a lot of times have Google as a a key partner.

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Andy Whiteside: It's. It's funny you brought that up right when you started talking about clients. I looked over here, and oh, I've got a chromebook I haven't booted up in a month. Now

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Andy Whiteside: make sure it still connects the way it's supposed to

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Andy Whiteside: All right. The next section talks about this magical, mythical thing called the Horizon Control plane. Can you help describe what that thing does.

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Philip Sellers: So this is really the back end services that that orchestrate everything it manages. And this is where your horizon console is going to be talking to all of those configurations. Get implemented here into the control plane.

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Philip Sellers: You know this is where you manage your images, your applications, their life cycle. It is the the key brain behind the horizon platform, and it is

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Philip Sellers: very heavily used in in terms of your deployments for your remote desktop farms or your desktop pools.

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Philip Sellers: and it it helps with all of those back end type operations.

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Philip Sellers: So this is another one, where I believe it's both, and you have choice. So there are hosted hybrid models for horizon. And then there's the full on-prem.

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Philip Sellers: much your traditional architecture.

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Andy Whiteside: If if you were a brand new customer or advising a brand new customer, would you

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Andy Whiteside: would you give them the choice to go on premises on, premise it from premises not premise, or would you highly encourage the alternative?

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Philip Sellers: You know I would start out of the gate, encouraging them to look at the cloud services just to reduce their management overhead it it. It makes a lot of sense that you offload

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Philip Sellers: through their cloud services. You know we we'll talk in a minute. The next one up is actually the unified access gateway. That's another cloud service option for us.

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Philip Sellers: You know we have the option with both of these to to either let V and our hosted or for us to host it on-prem.

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Philip Sellers: But there, you know, reality is. There are some organizations that choose to do this, and this is very much part of their culture.

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Philip Sellers: And again, Vmware gives us the traditional choice of posting it on Prem. If we wanted to

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Philip Sellers: You know it.

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Philip Sellers: security, conscious customers that

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Philip Sellers: I, I think, feel better about having it in their data center and not extending their perimeter

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Philip Sellers: to a third party is me, you know someone might be, and we're hosting it for them.

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Philip Sellers: But that model is pervasive. I mean you. You see it throughout the industry with not only this type of you see delivery, but you know

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Philip Sellers: Internet security products, and particularly in kind of the sassy or Sd land space you start to see the customer's perimeter starting to expand in the cloud, anyway.

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Philip Sellers: So there's really not a lot of arguments. Why, you shouldn't do it. But again, there are political factors and just customer comfortability with with the concept of of having a third party host it for them.

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Andy Whiteside: let's see next one on the list is the gateway. This magical gateway thing again Question for you. Is it something that

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Andy Whiteside: people are putting on premises, or they're putting in the cloud, or do you need in the cloud?

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Philip Sellers: Yeah. So this is an interesting one, because I can actually make stronger arguments for the access gateway

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Philip Sellers: for things like latency. So you you can talk about putting an access gateway at your edge and and allowing customers in.

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Philip Sellers: But really, you know, as long as you're well connected

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Philip Sellers: you're gonna have a good user experience, You know this is

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Philip Sellers: this is your edge device. This is the thing that that stands between your network and the world. And so this is your termination point for your micro Jpns. This is where all of your external clients are gonna come in, and you know.

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Philip Sellers: authenticate, and then.

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Philip Sellers: the keys to the kingdom. I guess you know these are the most important to me

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Philip Sellers: you know, when it comes to getting the best latency or or the fastest connections. Perhaps you would put an access gateway at your

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Philip Sellers: your co-locate, but you know they can be hosted in the cloud. It is something where we can bring in the traffic and let it your first down from the Vmware services back to your own prem data center.

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Andy Whiteside: Okay.

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Philip Sellers: So the connection servers are really just that

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Philip Sellers: you've got your control plane, your connection servers, and the

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Philip Sellers: the what was it? Management

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Philip Sellers: Scroll up just a bit. It was I'm. I'm blanking on the the name here. But the yeah, it's the control thing that that's all. I'm looking for. Your connection Servers kinda covers that all of those things together, at least in an on prem deployment. And so these are kind of the the primary place where

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Philip Sellers: you're you're checking for capacity and brokering where a users session should terminate. You know what applications are loaded, where what farms, all of that configuration information you've done in the other layers

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Philip Sellers: that's gonna terminate here, and the connection function is is what's going to help you get routed to the correct resource. Whatever you happen to be

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Philip Sellers: requesting on the back end.

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Andy Whiteside: And how does that differ from a cloud connector, then?

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Philip Sellers: it? It's a little different. It's an appliance that works with and brokers to the horizon Cloud service. So

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Philip Sellers: a variety of different public cloud vendors that it supports. But this is

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Philip Sellers: leverages. This cloud connector. So it basically helps with the orchestration of cloud native platforms and allows you to consume those as resources within your horizon farm.

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Philip Sellers: And you know it it Also.

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Philip Sellers: you know it helps us build a more

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Philip Sellers: for our customers, you know, because we're not forced to keep everything in a single data center or location, we can start to scale out the infrastructure across multiple geographies or multiple different

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Andy Whiteside: So.

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Andy Whiteside: Philip, on that note, right? So that's where we can bring in

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Andy Whiteside: all these different technologies and go connect to Amazon's Data Center, Aka: the Cloud

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Andy Whiteside: Microsoft Data Center Azure Ak: the Cloud, its integral data center customer data center

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Andy Whiteside: it. It's really just this great big aggregation of somebody else's servers

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Andy Whiteside: or platforms.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, it is. And

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Philip Sellers: it it it's the piece that translates what we do natively in her iphone on our on-prem servers. So

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Philip Sellers: you know, one of the things that connection servers are gonna do is they talk to the hypervisor manager. They spin up and make phones of the virtual machines.

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Philip Sellers: We have to have something that does the same thing. But it speaks cloud, you know it talks the cloud Apis to do the same orchestration. And that's really the role of this. That's probably the best way to describe it.

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Andy Whiteside: Okay. The next item here is called the Vmware Horizon agent sounds minimal, but extremely important part of the solution.

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Philip Sellers: Absolutely. It is the thing that runs on our pool servers. So whether it's a remote desktop farm running a server OS

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Philip Sellers: for a a desktop OS running in the server farms. This is the piece that talks back to the connection servers, and it's how we know that the host is healthy. It's ready to receive

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Philip Sellers: connections. How are the connections running?

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Philip Sellers: that our hosting servers

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Philip Sellers: talk back to the rest of the horizon Infrastructure

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Andy Whiteside: Great question for you here, my servers power, and up in the background

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Andy Whiteside: I don't hear it. You've got good microphones and

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Philip Sellers: good noise cancelling there. Got a good microphone, and it's directionally pointed where it's supposed to be. Not at the server. All right, so

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Andy Whiteside: help us understand what Vmware workspace One access means. Then

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Philip Sellers: establishing. Who is the user. What are they at rights to? You know it is a modern authentication platform. So it's meant to be able to to tie up the active, direct azure, active Directory, or on Prem Active Directory, or any of the other cloud

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Philip Sellers: And then you can basically use this to then create that app store. You know this this was the

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Andy Whiteside: to to me. This is the the key element that takes these really valuable usable components and brings it into a digital workspace that allows you to have that high fidelity secure access from anywhere, including the office.

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Andy Whiteside: including, you know, one of the other company locations, including your home, including the airplane, including wherever you're at and feel like you're doing it in a way that's a modern approach to having that connectivity.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, I agree with that. And and I would take it one step further and say, this is the piece that presents that consumer type view that you know

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Andy Whiteside: i'm gonna i'm gonna add one word to that because I had this conversation I think it was you and I talked about earlier. I don't have been a couple of podcast with my brother in law. Okay? Yes, yes, yes, access. Yes. All I need to network works in the office works at home security securely delivering a good user

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Philip Sellers: you may need check printer scanners. Things like that where you want a very curated access while having that security. So yeah, there there's so many different things that that this can solve. Is it for everything?

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Philip Sellers: No, probably not. But there's so many use cases where it's, additive and great. You know it's

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Philip Sellers: It's one where I i'm like you. I love him. I see the light bulb go off for people.

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Philip Sellers: You know it. It's

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Philip Sellers: it's fun to get to have those conversations and and then help people explore how they can help

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Philip Sellers: their users, how they can help the bottom line frankly, and you know whether that's saving on a insurance renewal because they're doing security better or

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Philip Sellers: or some other factor. You know it's it's a great place where

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Philip Sellers: technology can intersect with that user experience and make something better.

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Andy Whiteside: Well, and and part of that for me is seeing someone who gets it just enough to go out and pilot it in a certain use case.

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Andy Whiteside: and then, when that's successful, move forward, and that's one thing i'm most proud about what we do. Here is we help people solve for that current use case to the point where their position for the next use case and the next use case After that you know it doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be. We're going all in or not. And as a

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Andy Whiteside: you know, as an integrator, that hope is open minded to a customer for life. It's

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Andy Whiteside: It's something that we can do where others are, you know, trying to maximize profits off each customer every time they interact with them.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah.

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Philip Sellers: yeah, we definitely believe in that customer for life. So I mean, that's

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Philip Sellers: That's our email. When we go out, we want to make sure

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Philip Sellers: that we do things the right way, and that we future proof as much as possible where it makes sense. And

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Philip Sellers: beyond that we educate, we share that knowledge and

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Philip Sellers: help users discover new opportunities. For you know, taking this technology to the next level.

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Andy Whiteside: Well, Philip, I appreciate the time and the coverage of this topic over these last 3 podcasts. It's it's just you know, just what we like talking about, and

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Andy Whiteside: certainly gives us a chance to have that voice, and hopefully, we get some listeners that they get valued at what we done here. I don't know what we knew next time, but we'll pick another topic and start continuing down the road of Vmware workspace. One horizon

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Philip Sellers: sounds great, Andy. Thanks for having me today.

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Andy Whiteside: All right, sir. Thank you. We'll do it again next 2 weeks.