Which two VMware products are required to deploy instant clones in the VMware Horizon platform? (Choose two.)

Question

Options

• AvSAN
• BApp Volumes
• CvCenter Server
• DDEM
• EESXi Server

• A
  3% (1)
• C
  91% (32)
• D
  6% (2)

Explanation

Instant clones in VMware Horizon rely on vCenter Server (C) to orchestrate and manage the virtualization infrastructure - Horizon communicates with vCenter to provision, manage, and track all desktop VMs. ESXi (E) is equally essential because instant clones use a low-level hypervisor feature called vmFork, which forks a live running parent VM into child VMs at the ESXi level; without the hypervisor, the cloning mechanism simply doesn't exist.

The distractors are wrong because vSAN (A) is optional shared storage - useful but not a requirement for instant clones. App Volumes (B) handles application delivery to desktops and is a separate Horizon component unrelated to the cloning process itself. DEM (D) (Dynamic Environment Manager) manages user profiles and environment settings, also independent of how desktops are provisioned.

Memory tip: Think "you need a house before you can furnish it." ESXi is the foundation (the hypervisor that physically runs VMs), and vCenter is the blueprint manager (the orchestration layer). App Volumes and DEM are the furniture - useful extras that come after the infrastructure is in place.

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