Posted by Brian on May 6, 2010 in VDI, VMware, View | View Comments
Fresh off the presses VMware announces the release of View 3.1.3. This is a Maintenance Release of the View product to address known issues in previous versions along with some security issues. To see a full list of the fixes included in this release you can read the release notes here.
As a note this release does not offer support for vSphere, it does require VI 3.5 update 3 or higher for your hypervisor. The release is available today for download from VMware. The release is a free upgrade for customer with active VMware View Support and Subscription contracts.
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Posted by Brian on Feb 23, 2010 in VDI, VMware, View | View Comments
VMware working with RTO is nothing new. The two companies entered into a partnership last fall during VMworld 2009 to integrate the Virtual Profile technology into VMware View. With this purchase VMware can build this layering technology into the View product directly. This allows for the Operating sytems, user profile and applications to all be seperated out into individual layers.
While VMware is getting several of RTO’s products in this purchase the Virtual Profiles product that is a profile management solution is surely to be the gem in this deal.
You can view the press release here and for more questions see the FAQ’s document here.
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Posted by admin on Feb 13, 2010 in Microsoft, VDI, XenDesktop | View Comments
For those of you that have taken a deep look into VDI or have deployed solutions you should be familar with the latest Microsoft trick to milk more cash from corporations. As far as I’m concerned this is a cheap way to charge more money for now added features and pad their pockets because they did not jump into the VDI game.
Ok to explain things a bit more. Basically Microsoft requires you to purchase your desktop license (XP/Win7) of course. But if you want to do a VDI solution using XenDesktop you mush also purchase a RS or terminal services license and a VECD license. This VECD is listed as needed if you wish to run a workstation OS in a data center. This license can cost from $23 to $100 plus depending on what your end point device is and if its covered under Software Assurance. This is all additional cost on top of the Citrix XenDesktop license that you need to purchase.
I was blown away when the Microsoft rep’s were explaining this to us in a recent call. And the fact they can tell people this with a straight face amazes me.
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