There is a new paper released by VMware, for VMware View 5.2, called View 5.2 Best Practices, or I should rather say Horizon View 5.2. The latest release from VMware has introduced many new features like sVGA or sparse efficient disks. Feature about which you could already read in my detailed post here – VMware Horizon Workspace – New Suite from VMware (detailed write up). The View 5.2 Best Practices PDF is the latest technical paper from VMware showing those features in a test lab using SSD array and hosts using SSDs as a local storage too, so very optimized storage configuration.
You'll learn about the host and guest best practices, that together with the right choice for the right network protocol, about the optimization of your golden image first. Choose the right network adaptor, plus some services you'll need to disable (Windows update, super fetch, Windows index…) you can get very optimized VDI solution. There are other settings to turn off, like hibernation system restore, screensaver or clear-type fonts and others… View 5.2 best practices paper shows you also how much memory you should allocate to Virtual desktops depending on which OS you're using ( Windows XP, W7 or W8)….
Quote from the source:
The first whitepaper describes View 5.2 new features, including access of View desktops with Horizon, space efficient sparse (SEsparse) disks, hardware accelerated 3D graphics, and full support of Windows 8 desktops. View 5.2 performance improvements in PCoIP and View management are highlighted. In addition, this paper presents View 5.2 PCoIP performance results, Windows 8 and RDP 8 performance analysis, and a vSGA performance analysis, including how vSGA compares to the software renderer support introduced in View 5.1.
Other details about new Horizon suite can be found here:
- VMware Horizon Workspace – New Suite from VMware (detailed write up)
- Horizon View 5.2 HTML 5 Access by using VMware Blast – My HD Video
- VMware Horizon View Features Pack 1.0 – what it brings and what’s it’s good for?
A screenshot from the PDF showing the bandwidth usage comparing the two principal protocols: PCoIP or RDP8.
View 5.2 Best Practices PDF – get your copy here.
