VMware VIEW 4 useful information

Ivo Beerens
Date : November 13, 2009
Categories : VMware-view
Tags : pcoip ,view-4 ,VMware-view ,VMware-view-4 ,windows-7

After attending the VMware View 4 Talkshoe podcast the following information about the announced VMware View 4 was discussed:

VM’s per core:

VM’s per core, In VMware View 3 the number was 6-9 VM’s per core, now in View 4 with for example the Intel Nehalem processors you can get to 12-16 VM’s per core. This number heavily depends for example on the application load inside the VM’s.

The PCoIP protocol does NOT support:

Security Server;
Smart Cards integration;
Thinprint support.

Generally:

The PCoIP protocol is not different in scalability than RDP;
For the RDP protocol version 6 is used in VMware VIEW;
Offline desktop support is still experimental;
There’s no RTO Software Virtual Profiles in this release of VMware VIEW 4;
Windows 7 is still experimental, official support will be around the begin of 2010;
The Connection server must be installed on Windows 2003, support for Windows 2008 will be around the begin of 2010;
Advise for virus scanning software is use VMware aware virus scanners (VMsafe), for example Trend Micro and McAfee have beta’s that use the VMsafe technology.