VMware® ThinApp™ is an agentless application virtualization solution that decouples applications from their underlying operating systems to eliminate application conflict and streamline application delivery and management. ThinApp simplifies application virtualization and enables IT administrators to quickly deploy, efficiently manage, and upgrade applications without risk. With ThinApp, an entire Windows application and its settings can be packaged into a single executable and deployed to many different Windows operating systems without imposing additional cost and complexity to the server or client. Application virtualization with ThinApp eliminates conflicts at the application and operating system level and minimizes costly recoding and regression testing to speed application migration to Windows 7.
ThinApp virtualizes applications by encapsulating application files and registry settings into a single ThinApp package. IT administrators can deploy, manage, and update these ThinApp packages independently from the underlying operating system (OS). The virtualized applications do not make any changes to the underlying OS and behave the same across different desktop configurations, which provides a stable, consistent end-user experience, and ease of management.
As a key component of VMware View™, ThinApp adds smooth application management to your virtual desktop deployment. View is VMware’s virtual desktop offering, fully integrated with all of the advanced virtual infrastructure features of vSphere. You can manage and assign ThinApp virtualized applications in the same interface where you deploy and manage virtual desktops: the View Administrator console. Users access their View desktops from a wide variety of devices: from a Windows or Mac computer, from a Linux thin client or zero client, or from an iPad or Android tablet.
With ThinApp 4.7, administrators now have the capability of deploying ThinApp virtualized applications in Horizon Application Manager™. Horizon Application Manager is an enterprise-level, cloud-based application catalog and reporting mechanism that provides secure, managed user access to SaaS applications, federated web applications, and ThinApp virtualized Windows applications, all with a single sign-on using Windows Active Directory credentials. Horizon provides a new management platform for entitling, deploying, and monitoring ThinApp packages.
Tuesday, November 22. 2011
Getting Started with VMware ThinApp - Reviewer’s Guide
Saturday, November 19. 2011
See the Mythbusting Presentation that Had VMworld Buzzing
Mythbusting Goes Virtual - Webcast Playback
Tuesday, November 15. 2011
Video - Managing VMware ThinApp with VMware Horizon
This video will show you how ThinApp and Horizon Application Manager together are improving the management and entitlement of applications.
Monday, October 24. 2011
VMware View for iPad 1.2 supports external display and AirPlay
VMware View Client for iPad makes it easy to access your Windows virtual desktop from your iPad with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).
What's New in Version 1.2
- Optimized for VMware View 5 with improved performance
- Support for iOS 5 including AirPlay
- Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay
- Embedded RSA soft token simplifies login to desktop
- Background tasking to move between Windows and iOS apps
- Updated look and feel
- Integrated online help
- Buffered text input for multibyte text entry
- Now in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
- Bug fixes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vmware-view-for-ipad/id417993697
Saturday, October 15. 2011
VMware View 5 Performance and Best Practices
Further this paper illustrates how, across all network configurations, View 5 delivers improved user experience compared with other VDI solution, while consuming significantly less bandwidth and CPU resources than Microsoft RDP7 and comparable bandwidth to Citrix HDX.
Finally, while the View 5 PCoIP protocol dynamically adapts to changing network and CPU constraints, ensuring great experience out-of-the-box, this paper lists a number of environment variables and VDI best practices that ensure users can get the most out of their VDI environment.
Saturday, October 8. 2011
Deployment and Technical Consideration Guide - VMware View Backup Best Practices
This white paper describes a VMware best practices approach businesses can use to build View data protection solutions for the datacenter. The paper provides a reference architecture that can be used to develop VMware View backup and recovery solutions. It also describes backup and restore scenarios for View storage components and procedures for implementing these scenarios. Note that this paper does not address disaster recovery procedures for the View environment.
In particular, a well-planned View backup strategy improves business infrastructure availability. Implementing a stateless desktop architecture removes the need to backup virtual desktop machines, thus removing virtual Infrastructure complexity, which simplifies manageability and can reduce support cost. For highly critical systems, VMware also recommends implementing high availability architecture for virtual desktops.
Deployment and technical Considetation Guide - VMware View Backup Best Practices