How to Achieve Cost-Effective Desktop Virtualization with Omnissa Horizon?

Since Omnissa Horizon is a rebranded version of VMware Horizon, many enterprises deploy it on VMware vSphere and vSAN, which, however, usually introduces additional licensing fees and O&M costs due to poor performance.

• Licensing cost: Under the new policy, Horizon packages are tied to VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) for VDI, which includes vSphere Enterprise Plus, vCenter Standard, and vSAN Enterprise with 100 GiB of trial capacity per processor core. If this bundled vSAN capacity is insufficient , organizations need to buy VCF or VVF directly from Broadcom, while acquiring the Horizon license separately from Omnissa. This fragmented licensing approach drives up TCO and reduces flexibility in capacity planning.
• O&M cost: One of the challenges posed to VDI storage is the boot storm during peak usage events. Even with vSAN, it tends to encounter cache breakdown under intensive I/O and cause severe performance degradation, increasing O&M burden as well as electricity charges.

More expeditions may come from:

• Hardware requirements due to higher VM density per node.
• High hardware cost associated with vSAN ESA (all-NVMe + 10Gbps network).

✅ One of the cost-efficient options: Running Omnissa Horizon on Arcfra AECP

As a leading vendor for enterprise IT infrastructure, Arcfra has partnered with the Omnissa team and jointly developed a leading VDI solution based on Arcfra Enterprise Cloud Platform (AECP). By running Omnissa Horizon on the AECP (integrated with VMware vSphere), organizations can leverage best-in-class distributed storage (outperforms vSAN by 15% for Omnissa VDI) while reducing VDI deployment costs by up to 61% compared to vSAN.

• CPU core–based licensing with unlimited storage capacity — delivering over 61% cost savings in real-world deployments.
• Higher performance due to advanced data locality — eliminating performance bottlenecks to provide consistently smooth operation during peak demands such as boot/login storms, patching, or mass cloning. A real-world customer validation reveals that AECP (integrated with ESXi) exceeds to VMware vSAN in SCVM performance by 15%. >>Learn more
• On-demand scalability — using standard x86 servers and ensuring infrastructure investment grows in step with desktop adoption.

Learn more about Arcfra and Omnissa’s joint solution:

Arcfra Launches Joint VDI Solution with Omnissa, Slashing Costs by 61% Compared to VMware vSAN

Why Arcfra Is the Smarter Choice for Omnissa Horizon VDI

Best Practice Guide for Omnissa x Arcfra Solution | Free Download

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