VMware View 4 was released nearly 2 weeks ago and I thought it could be useful to sum up all the interesting links for VMware View 4. I might add some more links the in the next couple of weeks, but I think this is a good start. Please comment if you have another good link.

Blogposts:

• VMware View 4.0 with PCoIP Released (Virtualized reality)
• VMware View 4 – Overview (Techhead)
• VMware View 4 Screenshots (VMetc.com)
• VMware View 4 Now Available. Overview of Features, PCoIP, and Architecture
• VMware View and PCoIP (Mike Laverick)
• VMware View 4 Launch Event (NTPro.nl) Read the rest of this entry »

VMware released a KB article about best practices for upgrading to VMware View 4. This article gives a nice compatibility matrix of which components of View 4 are compatible with components of View 3. As you can see, View agent 3.x is compatible with Connection server 4.0 and View agent 4.0 is compatible with Connection server 3.x. View Client 4.0 is compatible with Connection server 3.x and View Client 3.x is compatible with Connection server 4.0. So it doesn’t really matter if you update the clients, the agents or the server first. Just be careful if you use the View composer component: Read the rest of this entry »

VMware announces VMware View 4 on the new VMware website:

“VMware View 4 is the industry’s first purpose built solution for delivering desktops as a managed service. Transform desktop management into a simplified and automated process, reduce the total cost of desktop ownership by 50%, provide end users a consistent high performance desktop experience and bring the power of the datacenter and vSphere to your desktops.”

I’m very excited about this new release of VMware View. Especially the new display protocol, the software implementation of Teradici’s PCoIP. Other key features and capabilities are: Read the rest of this entry »

Before I start my first post in the VirtualFuture.Info Bloggers-Battle, let me first respond to Matthijs’  first post. And let me remind the readers, this is a Bloggers-Battle. Matthijs and I are trying to convince each other and the readers that one product is a better choice than another, just for this Battle. As consultants solving customers’ challenges, we always choose products that fit the customer needs best. There are more options to choose from when it comes to Desktop Virtualization (Quest vWorkspace for example) but for this battle we choose VMware View 4 and Citrix Xendesktop 4, which will bothbe released this month. That having said, here is my respond to Matthijs’ article. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay Sven, the game is on!

This is my first post in the VirtualFuture.Info VDI Blog Battle, to convince Sven, and all you out there, why Citrix XenDesktop 4 would be the right solution for future desktops. I’ll be talking about Citrix XenDesktop 4 this month and try to point out to you some of the unique features of Citrix XenDesktop 4 and why it would be a better solution then VMware View 4. In this post I won’t go deep into the product, but more into its maker, Citrix, and their vision on VDI.
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