VMware View (includes VMware VDI)

Simplified Desktop Management

• Deliver desktops to the user and not to a physical device by eliminating the bonds between a desktop image and the physical PC
• Deliver, manage and update all of your Windows desktops and applications from a central location

Automated Virtual Desktop Provisioning

• Use a single management tool to provision new desktops or groups of desktops
• Get an intuitive easy-to-use administrative interface for setting desktop policies
• Use a template to provision pools of desktops
• Set administrative policies, such as how many virtual machines can be in a pool, or logoff parameters 

Advanced Virtual Desktop Image Management

• Rapidly create virtual desktops from a master image
• Push updates and patches out to any number of virtual desktops in minutes without affecting user settings, data or preferences

Unified Access

• Securely access your personalized desktop in a Windows Terminal Server environment or on a Blade PC from a single interface
• Remotely access physical PCs
• Monitor and audit desktop activity as well as load balance multiple Windows Terminal Servers

Virtual Printing

• Print from virtual desktops to local devices without compatibility issues, bandwidth restraints or complicated user setup
• Automatically discover, connect and print from a virtual desktop to any local or networked printer that’s defined on the client device
• Use universal print drivers to eliminate compatibility issues
• Compression delivers high-quality printing with enhanced performance, even over suboptimal network connections

Familiar End-user Experience

• Deliver complete, unmodified desktop environment compatible with existing legacy or custom applications
• Get improved end-user experience for playing rich multimedia
• Print to local printers, USB devices or other peripherals
• Let users access their desktops from a wide variety of virtual desktop devices, anytime

Security

• Get strong network security to protect sensitive corporate data
• Use SSL tunneling to ensure all connections are completely encrypted
• Get full support of RSA SecurID® and the added security of two-factor authentication for tightened access control

Availability and Scalability

• Deliver high availability with no single point of failure
• Get automatic failover and pervasive, cost-effective protection within your virtualized desktop environment, without the cost or complexity of traditional clustering solutions, with VMware High Availability (HA)
• Utilize advanced clustering capabilities on the physical and virtual layers provide enterprise-class scalability

Streamlined Application Management

• Separate applications from underlying operating systems for increased compatibility and streamlined application management with VMware ThinApp
• Run applications on servers in the datacenter and make them accessible through a shortcut on the virtual desktop further, reducing the size of the desktop image and subsequent storage needs
• Run multiple applications or multiple versions of the same applications on users’ virtual desktops without conflict
• Ensure all desktops are up to date with the latest application version

Offline Desktop

• Run managed virtual desktops locally or in the datacenter through the same administration framework with Offline Desktop, an experimental feature in VMware View 3
• Apply and enforce all existing security policies for that virtual desktop
• Check the desktop back into the datacenter for resynchronization as needed

Thin Client Support

• Get support for a wide variety of thin client devices. For a complete list of compatible hardware, please refer to the Thin Client Compatibility Guide HCL.

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