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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 VMware vSphere to your desktops.


Key Features and Capabilities

Simplified Desktop Management
Desktop and application virtualization breaks the bonds between software, hardware and operating systems, eliminating the need to 

actually install or manage desktop environments on end user devices. From a central location you can deliver, manage and update 

all of your Windowsdesktops and applications in minutes. VMware View makes the testing, provisioning and support of applications 

and desktops much easier and less costly.

Automated Desktop Provisioning
Through View Manager 4, VMware View provides a single management tool to provision new desktops or groups of desktops, and an 

easy interface for setting desktop policies. Using a template, you can customize virtual pools of desktops and easily set 

policies, such as how many virtual machines can be in a pool, or logoff parameters. This feature enables greater IT efficiency by 

automating and centralizing desktop provisioning activities.

Advanced Virtual Desktop Image Management
Based on the mature Linked Clone technology, View Composer enables the rapid creation of desktop images from a master image. 

Whatever updates are implemented on the parent image can be pushed out to any number of virtualdesktops in minutes, greatly 

simplifying deployment and patches and reducing costs. The process does not affect user settings, data or applications, so the 

user remains productive on a working desktop, even while the changes are being applied.

Superior End User Experience
Address the broadest range of use cases and deployment options with VMware View’s PCoIP desktop display protocol, and deliver a 

high-performance desktop experience, even over high latency and low bandwidth connections. PCoIP’s adaptive technology is 

optimized for the delivery of virtualdesktops to users on the LAN or over the WAN. VMware View gives users access to their 

virtual desktops over a wide variety of virtual desktop devices, without any performance degradation, anytime. They can also play 

rich media content, choose from any number of monitor configurations and seamlessly access locally attached peripheral devices 

such as scanners and mass storage.

Built-in Security
Maintain control over data and intellectual property by keeping it secure in the datacenter. End users can access their 

personalized desktop, complete with applications and data, from any location, at any time without jeopardizing the corporate 

security policies. Optional integration with RSA SecurID for 2 factor authentication avialble.

Availability and Scalability
VMware View delivers high availability, with no single point of failure. VMware High Availability (HA) ensures automatic failover 

and provides pervasive, cost-effective protection within your virtualized desktop environment, without the cost or complexity of 

traditional clustering solutions. Additionally, advanced clustering capabilities on the physical and virtual layers provide 

enterprise-class scalability with no single point of failure.

Streamlined Application Management
VMware ThinApp application virtualization separates applications from underlying operating systems for increased compatibility 

and streamlined application management. Applications packaged with ThinApp can be run in the datacenter and accessible through a 

shortcut on the virtual desktop, reducing the size of the desktop image and subsequent storage needs. Since ThinApp isolates and 

virtualizes applications, multiple applications or multiple versions of the same applications run onusers’ virt