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VMware Horizon View 5.2 available for download

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VMware View 5.2 is now available for download! Here are the release notes:

What’s New in Horizon View 5.2

VMware Horizon View 5.2 delivers valuable enhancements to end user experience and ease of management, while further driving down the total cost of ownership for VDI.

What’s New with End User Experience

  • Support for Windows 8 based desktops1
  • Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics1
  • Improved video and VOIP communications with Microsoft Lync 2013 support4
  • Streamlined access to View Desktops from Horizon2
  • Easily connect to desktops from any device with HTML Access3
  • Enhanced productivity from mobile devices with new ‘Unity Touch’ functionality3 and 4

What’s New with Ease of Management

  • Large pool creation with elimination of 8 host limits, and multiple vLAN support
  • View Administrator performance improvements with large numbers of desktops
  • Accelerated provisioning and recompose operations.
  • Tech Preview of a new Integrated Service Console in the vSphere Web Client1
  • Support for vCenter Server Virtual Appliance based deployments

What’s New with Total Cost of Ownership

  • Substantial storage capacity savings for persistent desktops with space-efficient (SE sparse) disk technology1

1 Requires use of vSphere 5.1 and subsequent patches
2 Requires use of VMware Horizon Suite
3 Requires use of additional VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack
4 Requires use of latest VMware Horizon View Clients

 

Link: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html

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Written by Christoph Harding

March 4th, 2013 at 7:32 pm

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  • Steffen Oezcan

    Hi Christoph, do you know where we can get the mighty “VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack”? Not available in the downloads, not really described in documentation or anywhere else. Or is the HTML Access feature only available for Horizon Suite customers, not View-only ones?

  • Peter Oomen

    same question here

  • http://www.cd-k.de/ Christoph Harding

    Hi Steffen, I don’t have a time yet but I’ve heard very soon. I’ll try to check this for you again!

  • Hai Doan

    +1, Cannot find the feature pack.

  • Zeb Smith

    According to the release notes at https://www.vmware.com/support/view52/doc/horizon-view-52-release-notes.html:

     These components will be made available shortly after the general availability of VMware Horizon View 5.2 and may subject to app availability in various mobile device application stores.