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CloudVolumes for VMware Horizon

Large numbers of organizations throughout the world use VMware® Horizon® to deliver virtualized desktops and applications to end users in centralized virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and RDSH-based environments. CloudVolumes for Horizon complements VMware Horizon 6 by simplifying the management of applications, personalization of user experience and dynamic provisioning for all virtual desktop types.

Interoperable with VMware Horizon 6, this solution will be delivered as a simple easy to use CloudVolumes Virtual Appliance available on VMware’s Virtual Appliance Marketplace.

With CloudVolumes for Horizon, IT will now have high performance, native and ThinApp application management for both VDI and published application virtual desktop environments, while saving on costs like storage, networking and compute.

Horizon users will be able to install their own applications and have those apps, user settings and profile roam with them within a persistent or non-persistent desktop environment, providing management cost savings while retaining a persistent user experience. IT will be able to instantly provision services to any Horizon 6 desktop to enable a best in class user experience and will also be able to provision workloads into generic RDSH pools to eliminate the need for silos of applications servers.

Application lifecycle management for VDI and RDSH environments

Customers now have high performance, native and ThinApp application management for both VDI and published application (RDSH) virtual desktop environments, while saving on costs like storage, networking and compute. You’ll also get the advantages of both streaming and local deployment modes for ThinApp packages. ThinApp virtual applications can be placed on a shared virtual disk (VMDK) on any available storage that vSphere supports, including local storage, SSD, NAS, or SAN. This arrangement permits thousands of virtual desktops to share a common ThinApp package without the need to stream or copy the package locally.

Users can now install their own applications

Horizon users will be able to install their own applications and have those apps, user settings and profile roam with them within a persistent or non-persistent desktop environment, providing management cost savings while retaining a persistent user experience.

Instant provisioning of applications for users, and a reduction in costs

IT will be able to instantly provision applications and services to any VMware Horizon 6 desktop to enable the best in class user-time-to-productivity experience and will also be able to provision workloads into generic RDSH pools to eliminate the need for silos of applications servers

Key features of CloudVolumes for VMware Horizon include:

• Single platform:

  • Scales to multi-data centers, cloud and desktop as a service (DaaS)
  • Supports desktop publishing with common apps across VMware VDI and RDSH
  • Desktop and server provisioning to eliminate server silos
  • Most effective use of non-persistent VMs including demanding power-users

• Ease of Management:

  • Delivered as a virtual appliance for immediate setup, test and deployment
  • Native installed apps and ThinApp support for department and user installed apps
  • Ability to update apps by simply adding volume that contains the changes

• Dynamic on-demand operation:

  • Instant entitlement and user personalization at login or at runtime in live VM
  • Update and patch without powering down or logging out, based on policy
  • Business agility and continuity by provisioning apps to any generic VM

• Resources optimization:

  • Single copy storage of apps for vCenter wide availability
  • Minimum use of network resources, no boot storm
  • Native performance with no reduction of density or scale