Teradici published a new web site which gives you an overview of all Teradici PCoIP zero clients and their compatibility to VMware View 4 with software PCoIP.

Have a customer that is implementing View4 with PCoIP and dual screens.
They are very happy with the solution except for one thing, performance of Oracle Forms was bad, there was some extra latency when typing and moving between different input fields and they suspected PCoIP and asked if there where some settings to tweak.
After some investigation it turned out to be a problem with the Java version and Oracle Forms in the virtual machine and had nothing to do with the display protocol.
The solution was to start Oracle Forms with …

VMGuru.nl published a new article on sizing a VMware View infrastructure. He talks about CPU, memory, storage and also network recommendations.

A few folks have run into issues with View 4 where PCoIP doesn’t work exactly as they expect. This manifests itself in a couple of different ways:
- Inability to resize the screen at all
- Resizing that only works down instead of up.
- Resizing that responds very slowly or that crashes after several resize attempts.
- Inability to switch between full-screen and windowed.
There are also known issues with the .NET framework, where applications based on this code will not render correctly if it was installed before the View Agent.
The following is a set of steps …

Today Teradici officially announced the interoperability of PCoIP hardware zero clients with VMware View 4. They released the new firmware version 3.0 which can connect the TERA1100 PCoIP processor based thin clients to VMware’s enterprise class desktop virtualization solution to support any type of user.

View 4 with PCoIP does support 4 screens with a maximum resolution of 1920×1200 per monitor. Mostly I see customers with the requirement for two screens and very often they are asking for the Pivot function where you can flip the screen from T-scale to L-shape like shown in the photo.

Yesterday Expand Networks announced immediate support for all VMware View 4 remote display protocols across Expand’s Accelerator range of WAN optimization solutions to securely enable, accelerate and control VMware View over the WAN. Expand’s benefit for Teradici PCoIP is the securely transport of PCoIP with standard or advanced tunneling options, eliminating the potential need of reconfiguring firewalls.

As Warren Ponder says on the VMware Community Blogs just in Christmas time there will be an updated version of the PCoIP zero client firmware that works with View 4 and PCoIP. For those of you who doesn’t know the story about Teradici and the hardware based solution you should definitely check Warren’s article. Also he posted a new video which shows the brilliant performance of PCoIP from a Teradici hardware zero client to a virtual machine hosted on VMware infrastructure.

VMware View 4 with vSphere for Desktops is the leading desktop virtualization solution on the market. It includes several of new features but the main highlight is the software PCoIP integration which offers a great user experience on LAN and WAN networks. See this article for the complete new feature list.

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