Recently had an deployment with a customer who has a mandate core o/s deployments are preferred unless the product doesn’t support a core o/s installation.
Well for this deployment we created two core o/s subordinate ADCS servers with the enrollment server software installed and configured. Everything is working fine and dandy, no issues and seems like its golden for production deployment.
Guess again.. all the Horizon products aren’t supported for a core o/s installation, yes it will work most of the time but if you’ll find any errors or in need of GSS support then most likely you would need to install a GUI variant. I’ve had two support cases open and both of them state it’s not supported even though the documentation isn’t explicitly stating that.
Take a look at https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-7/7.10/horizon-installation/GUID-30AA88CF-8CDF-42E5-97D4-D75B2171434B.html for the ESB release and https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78652 for the Horizon 8 2006 release.
I’ve asked for a documentation update in the support case and also left feedback that the articles need updating. Please do the same so that we can prevent others from installing a unsupported setup.
Hope it helps!