VMware View4.5 Virtual Desktop Solution FAQ

Q: What is VMware View?

A: VMware View is a desktop virtualization solution built for delivering desktops as a hosted service. VMware View solutions help IT organizations automate desktop and application management, reduce costs, and increase data security through centralized desktop environments. This centralization brings greater flexibility to end users and enhances the control of the IT organization. By encapsulating operating system
, applications, and user data at isolated levels, IT organizations can deliver an innovative desktop. This allows them to change, update, and deploy each element independently, resulting in greater business agility. Unlike other desktop virtualization products, VMware View is built on and tightly integrated with vSphere, the industry's leading virtualization platform, allowing customers to extend the value of VMware Infrastructure and its enterprise-class features such as high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity.

Q: What is included in VMware View 4.5?

A: VMware View 4.5 is available in two versions:

1. VMware View Enterprise – includes vSphere for Desktops, vCenter for Desktops, and VMware View Manager.

2. VMware View Premier – includes vSphere for Desktops, vCenter for Desktops, vShield Endpoint, VMware View Manager, View Client with Local Mode, VMware View Composer, and VMware ThinApp.

Q: What is the working principle of VMware View?

A: With VMware View, desktop components can be separated from physical devices & ldquo; and can be hosted as a hosted service from a centralized location such as a data center or from a cloud. VMware View also supports the delivery of revolutionary desktops by virtualizing desktop operating systems, applications, and user data. End users can connect to their desktops, applications, and data from multiple devices and over any network connection for an optimized and familiar desktop experience. By centrally managing desktop, application, and user data in the data center, organizations can benefit from increased management and control capabilities while end users benefit from flexible access and improved service levels.

Q: What is VMware View Manager 4.5?

A: VMware View Manager 4.5 is the latest version of Connected Server and Desktop Agents, providing end users with flexible, secure access to their personalized virtual desktops from a variety of endpoint devices over a LAN or WAN. With VMware View Manager, administrators can manage, provision, and deploy virtual desktops easily and cost-effectively from a single point of control. VMware View Manager's built-in security features ensure that data, information, and intellectual property are kept in the data center and protected, while end users can still access it from many locations and devices. VMware View Manager 4.5 is available as a component in VMware View Enterprise and VMware View Premier, and is available as an add-on module for existing customers running VMware vSphere.

Q: What is VMware View Composer?

A: VMware View Composer uses linked-clone technology to quickly create and update desktop images that share the same virtual disk with the primary image, reducing storage requirements by up to 70% while optimizing desktop image management. With View Composer, IT organizations can manage hundreds or thousands of desktops as one image. With View Manager, patches or updates can be applied to all desktops that are linked to the master image by simply updating the master image without affecting the user's settings, data, or applications. In View 4.5, View Composer now supports tiered storage, making it easier for storage administrators to use different types of tiered storage for the same user pool. View Composer and tiered storage capabilities can further reduce the storage costs of VMware View virtual desktop deployments.

Q: What is VMware ThinApp?

A: VMware ThinApp can virtualize applications to improve compatibility and optimize management. The application is independent of the underlying operating system and is packaged with the virtual operating system as an EXE or MSI file. Applications packaged by ThinApp can run on data center servers or even shared network drives and can be accessed through shortcuts on virtual desktops. This can reduce desktop image size and subsequent storage needs. Because the application is isolated and virtualized, multiple instances or versions of the same application can be run on a single virtual desktop without conflict. Applications can be centrally managed and deployed to ensure that all desktops use the latest application version. ThinApp 4.5 is included with VMware View Premier to support ThinApp applications running on the Windows
7 operating system.