At VMworld 2009 VMware announced an OEM agreement with RTO Software, to integrate their Virtual Profiles technology into VMware View. This was an important step for VMware due to the gap of a Windows profile management solution. Today VMware announced the acquisition of RTO Software and their product portfolio. With RTO VMware View will have a great persona management in the View solution.

VMware just announced a new maintenance release for VMware View 4. The new version 4.0.1 resolves some known issues from the previous release and includes also new features.

A few month ago I wrote an article about using VMware View 3 with Novell eDirectory. At this time I was testing the installation with View 3, a Novell Netware eDirectory (not Open Enterprise Server) and a Active Directory Server which users and passwords were in sync through DirXML. As you see this environment has two gaps: It needs two directories and it uses a legacy Netware server which will not longer be supported in the future by Novell. Lots of Novell customers have already migrated their environment to OES …

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 …

In a new blog article over at VMware View-Point, VMware’s Desktop CTO Scott Davis talks about broadening the View solution by extending the desktop vision to a wider range of devices and use cases. (Link) An interesting read for everyone who want’s to know more about CVP and Offline VDI.

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 …

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.

RSA technologies just released a new document on hardening VMware View environments and also integrating data loss prevention for VDI. Check the RSA knowledge base for more information or download it at Virtual Geeks website.

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.