COMPARISON MATRIX

VMware Horizon Subscription

Feature comparison

The following table provides a feature comparison for VMware Horizon® Universal Subscription,
VMware Horizon Apps Universal Subscription, VMware Horizon Standard Subscription,
VMware Horizon Apps Standard Subscription and VMware Horizon Enterprise Term Subscription.
Listed features may depend on deployment.

HORIZON HORIZON APPS HORIZON HORIZON APPS HORIZON

FEATURE UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL STANDARD STANDARD ENTERPRISE
SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION EDITION (TERM)

Licensing

License type Subscription Subscription Subscription Subscription Subscription

SaaS SaaS SaaS SaaS Term

Concurrent User

Named User

Deployment

On-premises Deployment Option

Public Cloud Deployment Option Federal only

Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Deployment Option Federal only

Restricted to Single-Location
Deployment (on-premises or cloud)

VMware vSphere®, VMware vCenter®

included in entitlement
For on-premises For on-premises For on-premises For on-premises
deployment deployment deployment deployment

VMware vSAN™ included in entitlement

For on-premises For on-premises
deployment deployment

Package option available with no SDDC

infrastructure “(no vSphere)”

Virtual Desktops and RDSH

Virtual desktops (Windows and Linux)

with Instant or Full Clones Windows only

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FEATURE UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL STANDARD STANDARD ENTERPRISE
SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION EDITION (TERM)

Virtual Desktops and RDSH

RDSH session-based desktops and apps

with Instant or Full Clones
No Instant
Clones

Linux-hosted apps

Support for Windows 10 multi-session

(Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop)

VM-hosted apps (Windows 10 OS)

Remote Windows 10 physical PC access

Support for non-vSphere VDI or RDSH

Management

Access to always up-to-date control

plane (requires outbound Internet
connection to Horizon Cloud Connector
using port 443)

VMware-managed, multi-tenant DaaS

deployment option

Horizon Control Plane services: app

management

Horizon Control Plane services:

image management, monitoring,
Universal Broker

Power management

Rest APIs

Help desk tool

Real-time delivery and lifecycle

management with App Packages /
AppStacks powered by
VMware App Volumes™

App packaging and isolation with

VMware ThinApp®

User profile and personalization by

VMware Dynamic Environment Manager™
Standard (DEM)

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FEATURE UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL STANDARD STANDARD ENTERPRISE
SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION EDITION (TERM)

Management

User profile, personalization and policy

management by VMware Dynamic
Environment Manager Enterprise (DEM)

User Access and Remote Experience

VMware Workspace ONE® Access

with VMware Verify™ multi-factor
authentication (e.g., Radius, SecurID)

Unified catalog of pub-lished apps,

packaged apps, virtual desktops, SaaS,
and web apps with single sign-on No SSO access
(SSO) access to SaaS Apps

Blast Extreme, PCoIP, RDP protocol

Session collaboration

Optimized video and audio experience

for collaboration software (e.g., Microsoft
Windows Windows
Teams, Zoom, WebEx
client only client only

Secure access and edge services

using multi-service proxy with
VMware Unified Access Gateway™

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