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View Pool Image Configuration

Considerations for Gold Images around Application virtualization and performance.

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Agenda

Gold Image

• What is It?

• Minimizing quantity of gold images

• Considerations for gold image

ThinApp

• What is a good ThinApp candidate

• What not a good ThinApp candidate

Location Based Printing

Persona Management

PCoIP Tuning

• PCoIP Tunable Parameters

• PCoIP Tuning Guidelines

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Gold Image

What is a gold image?

• A gold image is what all of your pooled desktops is based off.

How do you minimize the number of gold images you need?

Application virtualization using a product such as ThinApp can minimize the number of gold images needed by removing applications from the image layer and moving them to the presentation layer.

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Gold Image

Considerations for gold image

Drivers

• Make sure all the different printers you will need have drivers installed in the gold image

• Make sure 3rd party devices you want to use are part of your gold image, such as web cameras or USB CD drives

USB Drives

• Do you want to allow users the ability to plug in and copy files from the network to USB drives?

Disable Copy/Paste

• You can turn on and off the ability to copy and paste from a PCoIP session to regular desktop sessions if needed.

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ThinApp

What is a good ThinApp candidate?

VMware’s answer is everything!

Adobe Reader

Web Browsers

Visio

MS Project

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ThinApp

What is not good to ThinApp?

Office 2010

Java

Adobe Flash

Adobe Air

Microsoft .NET

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VMware View – Built to Deliver Desktops as a Managed Service

PlatformVMware vSphere for

desktops

User ExperiencePCoIPPrint

Multi-monitor displayMultimedia

USB redirection

ManagementVMware View Manager

Vmware View ComposerVMware ThinApp

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PC with No App Virt

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Server Virtualization

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Application Virtualization

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Package once, deploy many

New

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Works with current Mgmt Tools

Old

New

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ThinApp from Network Share

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Location Based Printing

Details Automatically connect View desktop to

closest printer

Simplify printing for end users

Satisfy compliance requirements (healthcare, financial services)

Simple GUI interface for Administrators to link devices to printers

Use Cases Medical staff moving from room to

room in a hospital

Bank personnel moving around a branch office

Floor 1

Floor 2

Floor 3

Flexible access to printing

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Persona Management

How to handle the User’s Persona (Windows Profile) is another critical design decision.

Leaving the User’s Windows Profile within the Virtual Desktop either limits the

infrastructure to dedicated Desktops; or results in Users leaving pieces of their profile across every Desktop they use.

Leaving Windows Profiles within the Virtual Desktop without redirecting them to Persistent Disks results in OS disk bloat.

If using Linked Clones, Windows Profiles that are not redirected to Persistent Disks or to the Network are lost on Desktop Refresh, Recomposition and Rebalance.

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Persona Management Options

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Tunable Parameters

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Tunable Parameters

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Tunable Parameters

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Tuneable Parameters

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Tunable Parameters

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Tunable Parameters

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PCoIP Tuning Guidelines

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PCoIP Tuning Guidelines

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PCoIP Tuning Guidelines

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PCoIP Tuning Guidelines

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PCoIP Tuning Guidelines

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PCoIP Tuning Guidelines