COMPARISON MATRIX

VMware Horizon
Perpetual Feature Comparison

VMware Horizon® is a modern platform for secure delivery of virtual desktops and apps across the
hybrid cloud, from the market leader in SDDC and digital workspaces.

VMware Horizon is available in subscription, term, and perpetual offerings. For perpetual, VMware Horizon
is available in three editions: Horizon Standard, Horizon Advanced, and Horizon Enterprise. All three
editions include all components needed for an end-to end virtual desktop deployment.

VMware Horizon Apps is available in two editions: Horizon Apps Standard and Horizon Apps
Advanced. Both editions include all components needed to publish apps in the data center
and deliver them to the digital workspace.

HORIZON HORIZON
SUB-COMPONENT/ HORIZON HORIZON HORIZON HORIZON
FEATURE APPS APPS
PRODUCT FOR LINUX STANDARD ADVANCED ENTERPRISE
STANDARD ADVANCED

License Entitlement

Concurrent User (CCU)

Named User

Desktop and Applications

Windows OS virtual VMware Horizon

desktops (vSphere
or non-vSphere)

Linux OS virtual VMware Horizon

desktops (vSphere for Linux
or non-vSphere)

Published RDS published apps

applications
(RDSH) and session-
based desktops

Linux hosted apps VMware Horizon

Remote Windows 10 VMware Horizon

physical PC access

VM-hosted apps VMware Horizon

(Windows 10 OS)

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HORIZON HORIZON
SUB-COMPONENT/ HORIZON HORIZON HORIZON HORIZON
FEATURE APPS APPS
PRODUCT FOR LINUX STANDARD ADVANCED ENTERPRISE
STANDARD ADVANCED

Management

Rest APIs VMware Horizon

Instant clones for non- VMware Horizon

persistent desktops
(available for 8.x)

Full clones for VMware Horizon

persistent desktops

Real-time application VMware App

delivery and lifecycle Volumes™
management with
App Packages/
AppStacks

App packaging VMware ThinApp®

and Isolation

User profile and VMware Dynamic

personalization Environment
Manager Standard™

User profile, VMware Dynamic

personalization and Environment
Smart policies Manager
Enterprise™

Global entitlement VMware Horizon

layer with Cloud Pod
Architecture

Help desk tool VMware Horizon

User Access and protocols

Unified catalog VMware Workspace

of published apps, ONE® Access and
packaged apps, and VMware Verify™
virtual desktops with
Single Sign-On (SSO)
access and multi-factor
authentication (Radius,
SecurID) using
VMware Intelligent
Hub for web

Blast Extreme, PCoIP, VMware Horizon

RDP protocols

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HORIZON HORIZON
SUB-COMPONENT/ HORIZON HORIZON HORIZON HORIZON
FEATURE APPS APPS
PRODUCT FOR LINUX STANDARD ADVANCED ENTERPRISE
STANDARD ADVANCED

User Access and protocols

Secure external VMware Unified

access and edge Access Gateway™
services using
multi-service proxy

Collaboration tools

Session collaboration VMware Horizon

Optimized video and VMware Horizon

audio experience for
Microsoft Teams

Infrastructure

Software-defined VMware vSphere®

datacenter Desktop and
infrastructure VMware vCenter®
Desktop

For more information on Horizon or Horizon Apps, visit vmware.com/go/horizon.

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