VMware View 4Built for Desktops

John Flisher Storage & Virtualization Engineerjflisher@teamia.com

Agenda

• Virtual Desktop Over “View”• Storage Sizing For VMware View• What’s new in View 4.5• NC Ports presentation • Thin App Demo

Desktop Infrastructure Challenges

Distributed workforce• Mobile & remote workers• Outsourcing & off-shoring• Contract Workers

Limited control of PCs• Patch compliance• Security• Regulatory compliance

Management complexity • Deployment• Support• Security• Backup

Focus on PC hardware• Many makes & models• Refresh cycles

VMware View addresses the challenges…

Centralize compute resource

Increase flexibility & agility

Simplify management

Improve standardization

Benefits of delivering desktops as a managed service

IT Control

Desktops and data are secure in datacenter

Manage from a central location

Reduced Costs

End-User Freedom

Desktops tied to end user identity not devices

Applications and data available 24/7

Rich desktop experience

OS

Apps

Persona

PlatformVMware vSphere for desktops

User ExperiencePCoIPPrintMulti-monitor displayMultimediaUSB redirection

ManagementVMware View ManagerVmware View ComposerVMware ThinApp

VMware View 4 – Built to deliver desktops as a managed service

Traditional PC/Laptop Browser Access Thin Client Support

Windows orrepurposed PCs

Broad industry support

Flexible Desktop AccessFlexible Access to Multiple Devices

Browser access on Windows, Linux and Mac

Single administrative interface View Manager – simple web based interface to create desktops, entitle users, set policies and more

Manage Desktops

• Built for desktops• Designed for the LAN and

WAN• Uses end-to-end software

implementation• Superior desktop

experience from task worker to power user

• Flexibility to address the widest variety of use cases

Display ProtocolProvide a superior experience from LAN to WAN using PCoIP

Rich mediaand graphics

Multimediaredirection

Progressive build of graphics

USBredirection

Productivityapplications

Seamless Desktop Experience

True multi-monitor

Provide a seamless desktop experience

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VMware View 4.0

Other Vendors

Deploy Desktops

VMware View is easier to deploy and manage than competitive offerings—The Tolly Group

15+ steps to implement

5 steps to implement

Scalable for large enterprise deployments

Data stored centrally SSL encrypted connections Security Server Integration with SecurID for

two-factor authentication Single Sign On Support

Smart Card Proximity Card Biometric authentication

Client

Secure and Scalable support fordesktops and users

View Manager

Security Server

Check-out hosted VM to local physical computer

Extend security and encryption policies

“Heartbeat” back to the datacenter; administrators can deactivate if necessary

Check in the delta only

Enable offline access and mobility Offline desk top is currently experimental

Template

View Manager

vCenter

Provision Desktops

Automate provisioning from a template

On-demand provisioning Multiple types of desktops

Persistent, Non-persistent, Individual

Apply group policies

Banner Health was able to provision 2600 users in under 10

days.

Provision desktops in minutes

Image Updates• Manage thousands of desktops• Streamline desktop management

with View Composer– Quick provisioning– Simplify update, patch, and

upgrade activities while retaining user settings

– Guarantee updates are applied to every desktop

Simplify desktop image managementSingle Image Management

View ComposerTraditional VDI

VMware View helps reduce storage costs by 70%

Single ImageManagementOptimize storage with View Composer

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Celerra Plug-in for VSphere

Why EMC Information Infrastructurefor VMware View ?

Proven Solutions - Virtual Desktop Designed for your Business needs

EMC Unified Storage All Tiers, All Protocols, Maximum Efficiency

Leader in Reference Architectures, Best Practice, Whitepapers for VMware + View

RSA – Integration with vSphere API stack+ VMware View Appliance (vApp)

Backup for VMware, Deduplication at every point

Market Leadership48% attach to VMware Environments

DR for VMware View – Proven at Scale, w/integration - VMware

What’s Coming down the pipeView 4.5

•Windows 7 support

•A new administrative console in flex with delegated roles, a dashboard, troubleshooting capabilities, and an events database.

•Persona management (virtual profile management & ThinApp application provisioning) to deliver a unified way to manage user data, application access and provisioning

•View composer enhancements, including detach/attach/archive of the persistent disks (formerly named user data disks), tiered storage support and refresh/recompose/rebalance for non-persistent pools of desktop images

•Support for latest vSphere release

What’s Coming down the pipeView 4.5

•Local (aka Offline) Desktop, including provisioning and management of desktop images for employee owned IT (EOIT) for mobile users.

Brandon JonesSystems Administrator

North Carolina State Ports Authority

brandon_jones@ncports.com

Case Study

ThinApp for application virtualization

Features Decouple applications and data from OS Agent-less architecture Wide platform and application support Plug into existing application management

tools

Benefits Minimize the number of desktop images

managed Streamline application patch updates Enable the use of multiple versions of

applications

Operating System

Application

Operating System

VOS

Application

Application

sandbox

VOS

Application

sandbox

App FilesApp Files

Application Virtualization

View Composer with ThinApp Redirect all application “writes” to the user

data disk, by default Reduce the number of master images and

size of base disk Provide simplified entitlement, deployment,

and management of applications Seamlessly update users Reduce storage costs

View Composer +ThinApp

“Application updates are kind of a non-event now…” Norton

Healthcare

Application Virtualization

Questions and Answers

Thank You!