subject: Windows 7 Desktop Party Virtually Crashed By Vmware [print this page] VMware has released the latest version of its ESX-based virtualization software to get the best on Microsoft's rollout of Windows 7. The company has released VMware View 4.0, featuring a new communications protocol called PC-over-IP in order to give a real-time screen rendering, and also the ability to deploy and manage tens of thousands of virtualized desktops without the help for custom engineering. Slated for the first-half of 2010 is a native hypervisor so that PCs can run offline, using the machine's domestic resources, and then synchronize when re-connected to the network.
View 4.0 will be available in two flavors - enterprise and premier, priced $150 and $250 per concurrent user. The enterprise features vSphere, vCenter, and View Manager, while the premier features these plus View Composer for single-image management and storage and application virtualization with ThinApp 4 for working on lean clients. VMware thinks the changes will bring desktop virtualization to a huge market of power users in addition to more traditional types in call centers through the adding of things like PC-over-IP. PC-over-IP was a hardware protocol VMware licensed from Teradici and it was deployed in high-end graphics and CAD. The companies have used PC-o-IP in software to run offer real-time rendering of graphics like Flash and text in the virtualized desktop.
It is not a good idea to introduce a new protocol, so VMware's made sure it's got the help for partners for PC-over-IP - Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and Wyse.On the issue of management, VMware says View 4.0 will now scale to tens of thousands of PCs out of the box, surpassing the previous 500 to 1,000 PCs. The View 4.0 vSphere ESX-based virtualization component on the desktop and View Manager management server have been both updated to help what VMware called "multiple connections at scale". View Manager will safeguard users against Microsoft's Active Directory.
So what does this have to do with Microsoft and Windows 7?
And now for its link with Microsoft and Windows 7 , VMware thinks that the vSphere 4.0 changes in performance and management will enable its desktop virtualization attractive to organizations that are for Windows 7. Instead of paying Microsoft for client copies, they can run virtualized instances instead, in a way saving on licensing, and the work of rollout and on-going management by going through instances and images. VMware's is pitching for those with legacy Windows XP applications. Windows 7 brings into being Windows XP Mode to run Windows XP applications on the desktop. With vSphere 4.0, though, VMware allows to run both Windows 7 and Windows XP, while also having the freedom to manage the rollout of Windows 7 by employing a single Windows 7 image.
