http://tech.philipsellers.com/2008/12/02/vmwares-experiemental-features/ Philip Sellers' random thoughts on technology Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:14:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://tech.philipsellers.com/2008/12/02/vmwares-experiemental-features/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Tech Talk » Blog Archive » VMware View 3 (formerly VDI) released Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:14:25 +0000 http://tech.philipsellers.com/?p=219#comment-194 [...] The most exciting, at least from my perspective, is the offline desktop.  View has a check-out feature, much like the local library.  From the VMware presentation a couple weeks ago in Colorado Springs, this feature will allow you to boot your laptop into a thin hypervisor (a la ESX) on the client,  login into the View Manager and check-out your virtual desktop, download the files onto your laptop, run it locally.   For the mobile workforce, this is a great capability.  The way that I’ve seen this run, at least so far, is via a bootable USB thumb drive.  The thumb drive boots you into the hypervisor and interface for VDI.  Once the virtual desktop has downloaded, you then execute it on the laptop or other local device (some vendors, such as Wyse are introducing thin laptop products).   After you’ve finished using the virtual desktop offline, you can reintroduce it to the backend infrastructure which merges the changes back into your online copy of the virtual desktop.  This feature carries an Experiemental tag (see this post for explaination).  [...] [...] The most exciting, at least from my perspective, is the offline desktop.  View has a check-out feature, much like the local library.  From the VMware presentation a couple weeks ago in Colorado Springs, this feature will allow you to boot your laptop into a thin hypervisor (a la ESX) on the client,  login into the View Manager and check-out your virtual desktop, download the files onto your laptop, run it locally.   For the mobile workforce, this is a great capability.  The way that I’ve seen this run, at least so far, is via a bootable USB thumb drive.  The thumb drive boots you into the hypervisor and interface for VDI.  Once the virtual desktop has downloaded, you then execute it on the laptop or other local device (some vendors, such as Wyse are introducing thin laptop products).   After you’ve finished using the virtual desktop offline, you can reintroduce it to the backend infrastructure which merges the changes back into your online copy of the virtual desktop.  This feature carries an Experiemental tag (see this post for explaination).  [...]

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