VMware Horizon 8 2312: New features deliver advances in performance, security, operations, and experience

Apr 01, 2024

Horizon 2312 provides a mix of features designed to streamline operations, secure sessions, improve performance, and add more personalization to each session

Horizon 2312 is the latest Extended Service Branch (ESB) release, which will provide several future updates containing critical bug fixes and new OS version support over a three-year period

VMware Horizon client and agent enhancements

  • Horizon agent auto-upgrade to simplify maintenance
  • Optimized CPU performance 
  • Enhanced images with bi nary lossless for Blast Codec .
  • Increased personalization with custom Microsoft Teams backgrounds.
  • Background blur for Linux Client 
  • FIPS module for MacOS 
  • Streamlined Horizon Linux deployment with easy setup tool 
  • ARM emulation-compatible mode improvements for Windows Client
  • Block SendKey capability to protect VMs from malicious scripts
  • DEEM integration boosts to Horizon telemetry capabilities 

VMware Horizon 2312 platform features

Let’s review the new platform features that continue  to improving operations, securing user interactions, and expanding capabilities to meet the needs of IT administrators.

  • Horizon Cloud entitlement on-ramp
  • Intuitive GUI for forensics feature
  • Optimized ADAM database for improved replication performance
  • Customized RDSH routing for published apps and desktops
  • Automated instant clone maintenance with auto-disable of RDS hosts
  • Suspend power policy for vGPU-enabled dedicated instant clones 
  • Customizable password reset text prompt in admin console 
  • API modernization complete with all fully transitioned to REST 
  • vSAN Express Storage Architecture

VMware Horizon Architecture

Horizon contains key components and integrated products that work together. The following diagram shows the logical architecture of a typical Horizon implementation.

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