50,000-Seat VMware View Deployment
VMWARE
VSPHERE 4.1
Leveraging more than a decade of industry-leading technology, VMware vSphere sets a new standard as
the most robust and reliable virtualization platform that forms a good foundation for building cloud
infrastructures. VMware vSphere is used in over 170,000 deployments in companies of all sizes throughout
the world. The latest release of VMware vSphere (version 4.1) pushes the platform even further by:
• Dramatically expanding the scale of the platform to an unmatched number of VMs and virtualized hosts,
enabling the creation of private and public clouds at even lower operational costs than before
• Introducing new capabilities for the most efficient aggregation of IT resources into an elastic pool of
computing power that applications can consume on demand as a utility-like service
The new and enhanced features that VMware vSphere 4.1 delivers, grouped by the major benefits of the
platform, are as follows:
• Efficiency through utilization and automation
• Agility with control
• Freedom of choice
VMware vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across multiple
systems and provides pools of virtual resources to the data center. It transforms data centers into simplified
cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver flexible and reliable IT services.
VMware vSphere is the industry’s most complete virtualization platform, with infrastructure services that
transform IT hardware into a high-performance shared computing platform, and application services that
help IT organizations deliver the highest levels of availability, security, and scalability.
Note: For a complete and detailed list of new features and capabilities in VMware vSphere 4.1, visit
www.vmware.com/go/vshpere.
VMWARE VIEW
Purpose-built for delivering desktops as a managed service, VMware View™ provides a positive end-user
experience and transforms IT by simplifying and automating desktop management. Centrally maintaining
desktops, applications, and data reduces costs, improves security, and, at the same time, increases
availability and flexibility for end users. Unlike other desktop virtualization products, VMware View is a tightly
integrated end-to-end solution built on the industry-leading virtualization platform. VMware View allows
customers to extend powerful business continuity and disaster recovery features to their desktops and
standardize on a common platform from the desktop through the data center to the cloud.
The VMware View solution provides a wide range of benefits.
• Simplify and automate desktop management. VMware View lets you manage all desktops centrally
in the data center and provision desktops instantly to new users, departments, or offices. Create instant
clones from a standard image and create dynamic pools or groups of desktops.
• Optimize end-user experience. The VMware View PCoIP display protocol provides a superior end-
user experience over any network. Adaptive technology provides an optimized virtual desktop delivery
on both the LAN and the WAN. Address the broadest list of use cases and deployment options with a
single protocol. Access personalized virtual desktops complete with applications and end-user data and
settings anywhere and anytime with VMware View.
• Lower costs. VMware View reduces the overall costs of desktop computing by up to 50% by
centralizing management, administration, and resources and by removing IT infrastructure from remote
offices.
• Enhance security. Because all data is maintained within the corporate firewall, VMware View
minimizes risk and data loss. Built-in Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption provides secure tunneling
to virtual desktops from unmanaged devices or untrusted networks.
• Increase business agility and user flexibility. VMware View accommodates changing business
needs, such as adding new desktop users or groups of users, while providing a consistent experience
to every user from any network point.