This document provides an overview of VMware View POC Jumpstart Services. It includes sections on key VMware View features such as View Manager, View Composer, the View display protocol PCoIP, USB and clipboard redirection, location-based printing, and client support for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and Android devices. It also discusses VMware View licensing and components including View Connection Server, Security Server, Transfer Server, and View Client. The document provides details on how VMware View can improve VMware vSphere and deliver a user-centric desktop virtualization solution.
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Desktop Requirements and Demands
Multiple applications
User data
Various desktop
operating systems
USERSOS
DEVICES APPS
Different devices
User-owned devices
User desktop portability
Peripherals
Various locations
Different populations and
needs
o Task versus knowledge worker
o General versus power user
o Stationary versus mobile user
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IT Challenges
Multiple applications
User data
Various desktop
operating systems
USERSOS
DEVICES APPS
Different devices
User-owned devices
User desktop portability
Peripherals
User experience
Budget
User data backup
Patching and compliance
Security and authentication
Application conflicts
Application updates
Desktop management
SLAs
o Time to provision desktops
o Desktop recovery and
replacement
Various locations
Different populations and
needs
o Task versus knowledge worker
o General versus power user
o Stationary versus mobile user
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Solution – Desktop as a Service
User-centric desktop computing
• Virtualize the desktop—separate from hardware
• Simplify desktop management
• Provisioning and decommissioning
• Patch management
• Application deployment
• Security
• Reduced capital and operational costs
• Increased agility
• Maintain user experience
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VMware View™
User Experience
Display / Multimedia / Peripheral / Printing / Access
Management
Image / Apps / Brokering / Security / Persona
Virtual Platform
Server (Hosted) / Client / Mobile
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How User-Centric Computing Is Better
Traditional Desktop VMware View
Desktop tied to device Virtual desktop is encapsulated
Slow provisioning Fast, self-service automated provisioning
Unsecured endpoint Secured environment
Difficult to manage and patch Easy to manage and patch large scale
Difficult to enforce compliance Easy to back up and recover
Capital and operational cost savings
Application encapsulation
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How VMware View Improves VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere Alone VMware View Adds…
VMware vCenter™ for virtual machine
provisioning
Automated desktop VM lifecycle management
Thin provisioning VMware View Composer for disk savings
Individual desktop virtual machines
Patch multiple desktops using shared image
with persona management
VMware vSphere® Client™ administrative UI Desktop broker with single sign-on
Content Based Read Cache (CBRC) PCoIP remote display protocol
VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Array
Integration (VAAI)
USB device redirection
Virtual and location-based printing
Local Mode offline desktop
Application encapsulation and deployment
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VMware View – Components
View Manager
vSphere
View Unified Access
Desktop broker, secured access
Active Directory integration
vCenter integration for virtual desktop
lifecycle management
View Client with Local Mode
Secure, offline desktop capability
Desktop
VMs
Transfer
Server
View Connection Server/Security Server
Transfer Server
View Client for Windows and Mac
Support for desktops/laptops and thin clients
Self-service, single sign-on
Smart card support
View Composer
Disk-saving via linked clones
Persona Management
Quick update/patch
management
View Desktop
View Display
Multimonitor support
View Multimedia
Optimized multimedia
Display Protocol
PCoIP
RDP
View Direct
USB redirection
View Printing
Driver-free virtual printing
Location based printing
ThinApp
Application virtualization
Integrated deployment
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Key VMware View Features
VMware View Manager (connection and security servers)
• Desktop connection broker – Maintains desktop assignment
• Support for SSL connection to desktop with RDP
• Support for RSA SecurID authentication
• Support for RADIUS authentication
• Supports a wide range of alternative two-factor token-based authentication options
• Opens standard extension interface to allow third-party solution providers to integrate
advanced authentication extensions into View
• Works with vCenter Server to provision virtual desktops as needed
• Option to create automated pools of desktop virtual machines that grow on demand
• Can broker connections to standalone virtual machines (VMware or non-
VMware), physical desktops, or Terminal Services sessions
• Supported desktop operating systems
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
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Key VMware View Features – View Unified Access
Access Method
View Client
• Windows desktops, laptops, and certified thin clients
View Client with Local Mode
• Windows desktops, laptops
View Client for Mac
• OS X 10.5 and higher
View Client for Linux (vendor-provided)
• For certified thin clients and repurposed desktops
Vendor Client (vendor-provided)
• For certified thin clients
View Client for mobile devices
• iPad
• Android 3.0 and higher. Android 2.2 for Cisco Cius only
View Desktops
vCenter virtual machines
• Automated desktop pools
Existing desktops
• Existing physical PC/blade
machines
• Existing virtual machines
• Individual (standalone) and
manual desktop pools
Terminal Services
• Terminal Services desktop
pool
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Key View Features
View unified access
• Credential authentication against Active Directory
• Support for pre-created Active Directory machine accounts
• Option for single sign-on to desktop console session
• Smart card support
• Kiosk mode for machine based authentication
Local mode
• Desktop virtual machine runs on Type 2 hypervisor
• Encrypted using 128-bit AES (256-bit optional)
• Desktop check-out, check-in, and rollback capabilities
• Desktop check-in, revocation policies
View Manager
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Key View Features
vSphere
• Scalability – Built for the largest desktop environments
• Thousands of virtual machines per pod
• Faster and more efficient VMware vSphere vMotion® leading to decreased migration
time for virtual machines
• Shrink and grow desktops based on demand and priority – Dynamic Resource
Allocation
• High performance
• Optimized for desktop workloads
• Performance acceleration due to lower memory swapping
• Advanced storage performance optimization options leveraging vSphere 5.0 such as
vStorage API for Array Integration, up to 32 hosts per cluster for NAS, Content Based
Read Cache, and customizable View Composer disk drive letter
• VAAI will be included as tech preview
• Best density
• Increased desktop virtual machine density
• High availability and business continuity
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Key View Features
View Composer
• Uses linked clone technology
• Disk savings
• Faster deployment
• Image separation
• Shared OS virtual disk
• Replicate changes quickly across dependent VMs
• QuickPrep or Sysprep for user customization
• User persistent disk (optional)
• Retains user-specific data
• Can be archived and managed separately from VMs
• Disposable disk
• Writes temp and page files to separate disk
• Deleted when virtual machine is powered off
• Can be installed as an add-on on the same host where vCenter Server
is installed or separately on a totally different host
Desktop
A
Master
READ ONLY Desktop
B
Delta
Disk B
Desktop A
Desktop
B
disk
disk
base
disk
Delta
Disk A
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Key View Features
View Desktop – Display protocol
• PCoIP
• Adaptive technology for optimal user experience over LAN and WAN
• Fully lossless
• Perceptually lossless
• Smartcard supported
• RDP
• Aero support with RDP 7 Client, Windows 7
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Key View Features Remoting Scenario – Fully Lossless
Step 1 – Initial composition sent
to client
Step 2 – Built to perceptually
lossless
Step 3 – Built to fully lossless
over time
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Key View Features Remoting Scenario – Perceptually Lossless
Step 1 – Initial composition sent
to client
Step 2 – Built to perceptually
lossless
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Key View Features
When to use lossless or perceptually lossless?
• Lossless – (with default BTL time)
• Rich experience where image quality trumps bandwidth efficiency
• Healthcare imaging
• Designers, illustrators
Perceptually lossless – (with build to lossless disabled)
• Environments where bandwidth efficiency trumps image quality
• Majority of typical desktop use cases
• Knowledge workers
• Task workers
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Key View Features
View Desktop – View display
• True multimonitor
• Multimonitor support
• Display pivot support
• Variable resolution support
• Autofit to client
• Enhanced user experience using PCoIP
• 2560 x 1600 resolution per display
• ClearType font support
View Desktop – View multimedia
• Multimedia redirection for optimized multimedia delivery by
rendering at client
• Flash
• Audio
• High definition video
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Description Benefits
• Basic 3D graphics
capabilities for non-
workstation users
• Targeted at task and
knowledge workers who
need Aero or applications
that require 3D graphics
• Enables DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.1 apps
• No physical GPU required
• Lower TCO / Higher ROI for workloads requiring basic 3D
• No Windows client side dependencies
• Acceptable performance on the WAN up to 100ms
Key View Features – 3D Graphics (Non-Hardware Accelerated)
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• Reduce TCO with more stateless desktops – Users who were
placed in dedicated pools solely to retain their persona
settings can now take advantage of less expensive floating
pools. Traditionally stateless task workers can now enjoy a
more personalized experience without significant cost impact
• Profile Migration – Windows user profiles from Windows XP to
Windows 7 and profiles from physical computers to View or
from View to View
• Facilitates DR/BC – Files are stored in their native format on
central file server.
• Easy Administration – GPO based management
• Scalable – No database or login scripts to impede scalability
Key Features – Preserve User Settings and Data View Persona Management
Feature Benefits
• Preserve user’s persona
between sessions
• Just-in-time file retrieval of
user’s data reduces peak
IOPS during login/logout
storms when compared with
typical roaming profiles
• Uses standard CIFS shares.
No database or back end
infrastructure required
• Does not require roaming
profiles, but supports existing
roaming profile users
• Supports all View guests
• Also supported on physical
computers
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Key View Features
View Desktop – View USB redirection
• Automatic USB redirection to connect peripheral devices
• Storage devices
• Printers
• Scanners
• Bluetooth adapters
• USB redirection policy settings are applicable to View Agent as well as View
Client
USB recognition
• View Client reads the device family from the device itself, not from the device
driver, so drivers need not be explicitly installed on the client
View Desktop – View clipboard redirection
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Key View Features
View Desktop – View printing
• Driver-free printing from virtual desktops
• Uses ThinPrint virtualized printer driver included
in View Client
• Uses compression to minimize network
utilization
• Location based printing integrated with Active
Directory GPOs
• ADM templates provided with VMware View
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Key Features – Location-Based Printing for Non-Windows-Based Clients
Description Benefits
• No client side requirements or dependencies for
Windows based clients
• Managed and configured through AD GPOs
• Prints to the closest network based printer from any
device
• Extends support of
location based printing to
non-Windows based
clients
• Several location detection
rules including
• IP address
• MAC address
• Username
• User group
• Client hostname
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Key View Features
View Desktop – VMware ThinApp®
• Virtualizes and encapsulates applications
• Decouples applications and data from the operating system
• Allows one copy of application to be run by multiple users
• Integrated deployment in View Management Console
• Deploy single, multiple packages to Desktop Pools
• Push to desktop or stream from network
Capture Store Deploy
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Key View Features – VMware View Client for iPad
Description Benefits
• Enables full Windows desktop experience on the iPad
• Connectivity over 3G and WiFi
• iPad supports View 4.6 and higher
• Supported in iPad versions 1 and 2
• VMware View Client
for the iPad
• VMware View Client
for the iPad with
PCoIP support
including remote
connectivity support
with the View security
server
• Available on the app
store today!
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Key View Features – View Client for Android
Description Benefits
• Access Windows virtual machines from Android
devices with best possible user experience even over
low bandwidth and high latency network conditions
• Connectivity over 3G and Wi-Fi, supports multitasking
• On Cisco Cius tablets, View Client requires Android 2.2
x86. On all other Android based tablets, it requires
Android 3 (Honeycomb)
• Support for Kindle Fire
• View Client for
Android
• PCoIP support and
remote connectivity
support with View
security server
• Enhanced security in
View Client 1.4 for
Android by
implementing
improved two-factor
authentication
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VMware View Licensing
Editions and variations
• View Enterprise and Premier editions
• Enterprise – vSphere for desktops, vCenter Server for desktops, View Manager
• Premier – Adds View Composer, VMware vShield™ Endpoint™, ThinApp, VMware
View Client with Local Mode
• View or View add-on licenses
• View license includes corresponding vSphere Enterprise Plus license
• EULA restricted to desktop operating systems
• View add-on license does not include corresponding vSphere license
Considerations
• View licensed per concurrent user (concurrent desktop connection)
• View support and subscription additional and required
• Guest operating system licensing additional and required