You can snapshot your Connection Servers before beginning the upgrade.

See Modernizing VDI for a New Horizon at VMware Tech Zone for migration instructions. All editions of Horizon 2006 (8.0) and newer support Instant Clones. Composer was removed from Horizon 2012 (8.1) and newer.

Composer is deprecated in Horizon 2006 (8.0) and newer.

The replacement is Unified Access Gateway.

Horizon 2006 (8.0) and newer do not support Security Servers.

Horizon Agents cannot be upgraded until the Connection Servers are upgraded.

Upgrade all Connection Servers during the same maintenance window.

According to VMware 78445 Update sequence for Horizon 7.X and its compatible VMware products, App Volumes Managers are upgraded before upgrading Connection Servers.

Horizon 8.x no longer supports Horizon Clients 5.x and older.

You’ll need to upgrade your license key to Horizon 8.

Horizon 7 license key does not work in Horizon 2006 (8.0) and newer.

For supported upgrade paths (which version can be upgraded to which other version), see VMware Interoperability Matrix.

If you are performing a new install, skip to Install Horizon Connection Server.

2020 Aug 14 – updated entire article for VMware Horizon 2006 (8.0).

2021 Jan 8 – updated entire article for VMware Horizon 2012 (8.1).

2020 Jan 10 – Upgrade – added link to VMware 80781 Knowledge DML scripts for data population of new columns in view Events Database.

2021 Mar 23 – updated entire article for VMware Horizon 2103 (8.2).

2021 July 16 – updated entire article for VMware Horizon 2106 (8.3).

2021 Dec 1 – updated entire article for VMware Horizon 2111 (8.4).

2022 Mar 10 – Install – updated screenshots for newer build with log4j 2.17.1.

2022 July 21 – updated entire article for VMware Horizon 2206 (8.6).

2022 Oct 21 – updated entire article for VMware Horizon 2209 (8.7).

2022 Nov 8 – updated entire links for VMware Horizon 2111.1 (8.4).1.

2023 Jan 13 – updated entire article for VMware Horizon 2212 (8.8).

2023 Jan 20 – added Horizon Console Certificate Management in Horizon 2212.

Biometric Authentication – iOS Touch ID, iSO Face ID, Fingerprints, Windows Hello.This post applies to all VMware Horizon versions 2006 (aka 8.0) and newer.

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