VMware View 4 announced

Today VMware has View 4 announced. VMware View 4 is supported on VMware vSphere and has a new protocol named PCoIP (View 3 uses RDP).

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Here’s a list of new and/or improved features:

FEATURE  
 
NEW/IMPROVED  
 
DESCRIPTION  
 
Quad monitor support  
 

New

 
 
 
Support 32-bit color with 1920 x 1200 display resolution and up to 4 monitors simultaneously.Benefit: True multiple displays allow you to "see more and do more" from a full desktop. This provides the ability to reproduce true color images with support for up to 4.2 billion distinct colors per pixel. 
 
 
True multi-monitor support on L-shape configuration  
 

New

 
 
 
Support 1 landscape display and 1 portrait display (with pivot monitors), variable resolution support, and auto fit to client.Benefit: Each monitor can be of a different size and be set to a different resolution. Auto Display Scaling/Dynamic Resizing helps desktop publishing, financial application, and high-end graphic design needs. 
 
 
Guest desktop support Windows Vista and XP OS  
 

New

 
 
 
Support for connecting to virtual desktops from Windows XP and Vista. The VMware View 4 PCoIP is a software-to-software implementation. However, it also supports hardware PCoIP hosts such as the Samsung SyncMaster 930ND 19" monitor and Teradici Tera Portal.
http://www.teradici.com/pcoip/pcoip-products/oem-solutions.php
 
Benefit: Provides scalable support to both software and hardware on the local hosts.
 
 
 
 
 
Network characteristics and security  
 

New

 
 
 
SSL protection on TCP for session management and AES 128-bit key encryption on UDP for media transfer between host and client system.Benefit: Provides comparable security and encryption found in other protocols. 
 
 
Protocol intelligence  
 

New

 
 
 
PCoIP protocol provides the intelligence to handle prioritization and quality of services (QOS) for video/mouse/keyboard/sound, etc.Benefit: This greatly helps the user experience by managing bandwidth and content variables. 
 
 
WAN performance and optimization  
 

New

 
 
 
Operate with up to 250ms of round-trip latency with tolerance on packet loss up to 5%.  
 
VPN tunneling  
 

New

 
 
 
Support Cisco VPN soft client.  
 
RDP virtual channel compatibility for USB redirection  
 

New

 
 
 
Support the comparable list of USB peripherals including biometrics, card readers, webcams, mass storage, flash devices, scanners, etc. The authorization can be done on a per-user/per-group basis to only accept specific devices.  
 
Flash control support for PCoIP  
 

New

 
 
 
PCoIP uses breakthrough graphics compression that is custom built for delivering a user desktop over IP networks. It works in such a way as to support all graphics (full-frame rate 3D for design engineering, video gaming, etc.), and media (HD video, Microsoft video formats, YouTube, Microsoft Silverlight, Google, QuickTime, or Adobe Flash).Benefit: By compressing the display image at the host PC/Server, you avoid application interoperability issues that have plagued thin clients for years and can quickly adapt to physical networks. 
 
 
Audio redirection  
 

New

 
 
 
New to PCoIP protocol. Redirect audio with dynamic audio quality adjustment on the WAN.  
 
ClearType font  
 

New

 
 
 
Subpixel rendering technology which may help to improve the apperance of text on some computer displays. Newly added to PCoIP protocol  
 
Full clone pool with thin disk/thin provisioning  
 

New

 
 
 
VMware View 4 provides seamless native support for thin provisioning with the vSphere server.Benefit: Helps reduce storage usage and allows more guest desktops per core while still providing high performance. 
 
 
Mixed cluster support for backward – forward compatibility  
 

New

 
 
 
This new option in View Administrator allows different versions of clusters to be managed via the same UI.  
 
VWware VMsafe API for better anti-virus optimization and execution  
 

New

 
 
 
VMware vSphere supports VMware VMsafe™ API Security virtual machine deployment, sold separately by security vendors, is consistent with desktop deployment. Protects the virtual machine by inspecting virtual components (CPU, Memory, Network and Storage).  
 
Triple single sign — on (3SSO) for sessions/connections keep-alive  
 

Improved

 
 
 
This setting enables "log in as current user" using Active Directory credentials or smart cards over Remote Desktop Protocol.Benefit: Helps eliminate redundant authentication steps or double PIN entry when using smart cards. 
 
 
Tag-based pool access  
 

New

 
 
 
Administrators can now assign "tags" to connect server and desktop pools. Tag matching rules can be applied to restrict or grant users access to certain desktops.  
 
Smart card removal policy  
 

Improved

 
 
 
This policy setting forces desktops to disconnect when users remove their smart card.  
 
Delete script  
 

Improved

 
 
 
This scripting capability cleanly deletes VMware View desktops and allows extensibility using visual basic scripting.  
 

VMware View is available in two editions:

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Offline desktop and Windows 7 support is experimental. This means it is not ready for production environments! There is a HCL for Thin clients that supports View, click here for the HCL . VMware View will be released and available for download on 19 November 2009.