Today at VMworld in Las Vegas, VMware announced VMware View 5. There are amazing new features that are sure to be a game changer for VDI environments. 

As a customer who runs a VMware View environment, I'm most excited about one of the more subtle features announced:  Persona or Profile Management. Now, with a linked clone, disposable disk desktop pool, user profiles are preserved and synchronized with a network repository. 

At login, only the required windows files are copied to the view desktop, and as more data is needed by applications, it is then copied down. At log off, only that changed data is copied back to the network share while the rest Is discarded with the desktop. 

Read more from the VMware blog:

http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2011/08/vmworld-2011-persona-management-in-view-5.html


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