We are entering into an interesting time in the industry witnessed by the release of VMware View. View Manager, View Composer, Thin App, and Offline Desktop are well positioned to accelerate the adoption of virtual desktops in datacenters and to remote access devices.
Today I’d like to share some thoughts specific to reducing storage costs with VDI or View. A major component in VMware View Composer is Linked Clones, which provides the ability to deploy hundreds of virtual desktops from a single desktop image. In addition to storage savings, customers will be able to update deployed desktops deployed with View Composer by patching the master desktop image.
Recently I have received a number of inquiries as to how View Composer and Linked Clones integrate with NetApp’s storage saving Dedupe and zero cost provisioning FlexClone technologies. I’d like to take this time to discuss this topic and how VMware and NetApp are engineering the best of breed virtual desktop solutions.
I will caution you in advance, this post is a bit lengthy because we have much to share and discuss.
