VMware-Desktop Modernization eBook

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Desktop Modernization

A guide to addressing End-User requirements andIT challenges using VMware desktop virtualization


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This eBook looks at the challenges

involved in delivering and managing

desktops, today and in the uture.

Its goal is to demonstrate how VMwaredesktop virtualization can deliver a

solution to address the requirements

o IT and end-users without compromise.

Chapter 1 The Desktop Dilemma

04 The trouble with todays desktops

Chapter 2 Desktop Modernization

06 Addressing IT and end-user requirements

08 Benefits or IT

10 Benefits or the End-User

11 Benefits to Business

Chapter 3 How to Get There12 Desktop Modernization and VMware View

13 VMware View At A Glance

15 VMware View Use Cases

17 VMware View Benefits

19 VMware View Included Components

Chapter 4 Getting Started

24 Resources

Contents


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The trouble with todays desktops

On the one hand, theres the need to keep the existing desktop

environment efcient, secure and running.

This can feel like an overwhelming task.

Operating Systems and applications can be difcult to deploy,

manage, upgrade and patch.

There are simple version updates and then a ull-blown platorm

migration comes along, or example to Windows 7.

Security and compliance requirements change oten and take

resources away rom more innovative projects. Meanwhile,

IT budgets and headcounts continue to all.

Desktops play such a critical role in todays workplace, yet

every day they seem to become more complicated and costly

to manage.

On the other hand, there are workorce demands to use new

devices and applications, to increase productivity.

Your end-users are bringing in their own devices smartphones

and tablets that they expect to use in the working environment.

Increasingly, theyre using cloud-based, SaaS applications to

share files and work aster.

They want to access their desktop across dierent devices, in

dierent locations so that they can work on the move or at

home.

Its all proven to increase productivity or the business, making it

more agile and competitive.

Wouldnt it be great to enable such a modern working

environment?

1. The Desktop Dilemma

How can you address both o these requirements?

The answer is Desktop Modernization


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Addressing IT and End-User Requirements

Desktop modernization provides a much more efcient IT

environment that lets you eectively manage, secure and deploy

desktops today while setting you up to better control your

environment as it evolves into the uture.

Virtualization is the key.

By separating the OS, applications and user data rom the

desktop hardware and moving them to the data center, the

IT department can eectively deliver and manage them as

individual components.

As a result, its much easier to deploy, upgrade and manage

desktops.

So your end-user can access to the same desktop, rom various

devices or locations. They could be on a thin client, laptop,

desktop or smartphone. They could be at work, home or on

the road.

2. Desktop Modernization

Modernize desktops and applications

by moving them into the cloud.


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Benefits or IT

Desktop modernization will give you:

Reduced costs

Virtualization simplifies and centralizes desktop management.

So resources can be shited rom maintenance tasks to more

innovative projects. Plus, there are significant reductions in

management and operation expenses to be made over time.

More control, easier complianceEnhanced role-based admin and centralized desktop security

policies give you more control, right across your user

inrastructure.

You can easily meet sotware compliance guidelines and ensure

all desktops and applications are up to date rom one screen.

Additionally, you can maintain regulatory compliance by keepinginormation under control in your datacenter.

Higher availability

The flexibility o virtualization allows you to deal with back-ups,

server admin and ailures without interrupting desktop and

application availability. Freeing the desktop rom desktop

hardware also gives users a highly available environment that

keeps running even ater they spill coee on their thin client.

An easier path to Windows 7

Get the benefits o upgrading to Windows 7 without endless

testing and legacy application issues, separate and encapsulate

the components to deliver as a service rom the datacenter. Thisaccelerates your adoption time while cutting your costs in hal.

Board-level approval and end-user satisaction

A leap in end-user productivity, lower costs and greater business

agility makes desktop modernization popular across the whole

organization.



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Benefits to Business

There are sound business reasons to take desktop modernization

to the board:

Greater agility

For example, the ability to easily deploy new end-user desktops

and manage them centrally means you can react quickly to

market changes, scaling resources up or down on the fly to meet

changing business needs.

More competitive edge

A modern desktop environment allows you to adopt new

applications and services quickly, so you can gain competitive

edge ast.

A happier, more productive workorce

End-users benefit rom a desktop thats more reliable and

available in more places, giving them more time and flexibility

to work.

Benefits or the End-User

Desktop Modernization gives end-users more reliable and secure

desktops, but its the greater working flexibility that theyll really

notice:

More productivity

Anytime anywhere access allows end-users to be more

productive, a modern desktop architecture means less downtime

rom conflicts, and improved support means that any issues are

resolved aster.

Greater reedom

The ability to use a variety o dierent devices to access

corporate assets means users can even leverage personal devices.

Less rustration

Better desktop and application availability means end-users

can spend more time on their core role and less on the phone

to IT support.

The benefits are clear, but how do you make them

a reality?

Heres how to implement desktop modernization



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Desktop Modernization and VMware View

VMware View provides everything you need to address desktop

modernization.

With VMware View, desktops can be virtualized and moved to the

datacenter to meet security and compliance requirements,

simpliy desktop management and increase end-user flexibility.

Plus, applications can be virtualized with VMware ThinApp to

eliminate conflicts, simpliy delivery and management.

VMware View At A Glance

VMware View brings the cost savings and perormance

enhancements o virtualization to the enterprise desktop,

so you can:

Deliver desktops where and when theyre needed

ree rom the constraints o your physical inrastructure.

Deploy applications efciently and reliably direct rom your

data center increasing application availability and business

continuity.

Centrally provision applications to remote and branch ofces

with potentially huge savings in time and resources.

Learn more about VMware View

http://www.vmware.com/products/view

3. How to Get There

VMware View and ThinApp

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VMware View Use Cases

Reduce the time and cost o Windows 7 migration

by 50%

Double the speed o Windows 7 migrations and cut costs in

hal by:

Rapidly provisioning virtual desktops that end-users can access

without upgrading their hardware

Virtualizing legacy applications to eliminate OS compatibilityissues

Simpliy remote and branch ofce IT operations

Deliver high-perormance virtual desktops rom behind the

corporate firewall to remote or branch ofces such as retail

stores, bank branches, medical ofces, and even oshore

acilities. This empowers users while reducing support andmaintenance costs.

Make more o what youve got.

VMware View helps you increase the return rom your existing

IT resources and manage your costs more strategically.

Windows 7 simplified.

76%* o companies plan to migrate to Windows 7 over the next

two years. You can upgrade at twice the speed and hal the cost

with VMware View.

Simpliy your IT estate.

With VMware View, you can deliver your desktops as acentrally-managed service and keep on top o updates

and regulatory demands.

You can enhance your organizations perormance

and save costs at the same time.

* Enterprise Strategy Group, 2010

Learn more about VMware View

http://www.vmware.com/products/view

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Enable agile business process outsourcing

Rapidly extend IT resources to third-party service providers

without sacrificing control over security policies or administrative

privileges. With VMware View you can centrally host virtual

desktops and applications and give users outside o the

organization access through a secure network connection on

desktops and thin clients.

Extend business continuity and disaster recovery

to desktops

Leverage vSphere automated ailover, load balancing, backup andrecovery and other built-in datacenter-class business continuity

and disaster recovery capabilities. These protect desktop data

and ensure continuous availability or end-users at a raction o

the cost and complexity o traditional solutions.

Support users on-the-go with Follow-Me desktops

Enable ultra-mobile users to roam reely rom endpoint

to endpoint by giving them instant access to a amiliar,

personalized desktop environment and critical applications

while keeping your sensitive data secure and protected in the

datacenter.

* IDC Quantiying the Business Value o VMware View, May 2011

VMware View Benefits

Reduce operational costs by 50%

Centralizing your desktop inrastructure with VMware View makesit aster, easier and less costly or IT to provision, deploy, maintain

and monitor desktop images across their entire lie cycle. In act,

IDC Research reports that VMware View customers have been

able to lower the total cost o ownership or their desktop

inrastructures by 50%, saving more than $500 annually per user.*

Simpliy desktop and application managementUsing VMware View, you can manage tens o thousands o virtual

desktops, including applications and user data, rom a centralized

administrative interace. At the same time you can simpliy key

IT processes such as provisioning, configuration management,

connection brokering, policy enorcement, and application

assignment.

You can also strengthen security and control by hosting virtual

desktops centrally to prevent data leakage. vShield Endpoint can

also centralize anti-virus, provide SSL or encryption and support

authentication with smart cards and RSA SecurID tokens to

enable secure access to virtual desktops.

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Deliver rich user experiences, on demand

VMware View is the only solution that lets you deliver rich user

experiences across a variety o devices and locations online or

o the grid. The High-perormance PCoIP display protocol lets

users work with their virtual desktops via a LAN or WAN

connection. Additionally, VMware View Client with Local Mode

enables them to work oine and leverage local processing

resources. The result is a seamless user experience that combines

the best o VDI and client virtualization.

Standardize on a common virtualization platormVMware View is built on the industry-leading VMware vSphere

virtualization platorm, providing unparalleled perormance,

scalability, reliability and availability or virtual desktop

environments. It also means that or the first time your

organization can standardize on a single common platorm.

This can cover your entire IT inrastructure, rom the desktop to

the datacenter and even through to cloud-based services rom

external service providers.

VMware View Included Components

VMware View Manager

End-users connect through View Manager to securely and easilyaccess VMware View virtual desktops.

VMware vSphere or Desktops

This edition o VMware vSphere provides a highly scalable,

reliable and robust platorm or running virtual desktops and

applications. It includes built-in business continuity and disaster

recovery capabilities to protect desktop data and availability,without the cost and complexity o traditional solutions.

VMware vCenter Server or Desktops

This edition o VMware vCenter Server is the central management

hub or VMware vSphere and gives you complete control and

visibility over clusters, hosts, virtual machines, storage, networking

and other critical elements o your virtual inrastructure.

Learn more about VMware vSphere

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere

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VMware View Administrator

VMware View Administrator enables IT administrators to centrally

manage thousands o virtual desktops rom a single image, to

streamline the management, provisioning, and deployment o

virtual desktops.

VMware View Client

This component o VMware View runs on endpoint devices

enabling end-users to access their virtual desktop environments

rom Windows PCs, Macs, thin clients and zero clients.

VMware View Composer

VMware View Composer lets customers rapidly create desktop

images that share virtual disks with a single gold image.

At the same time user data and settings are segmented so they

can be managed independently. Desktops linked to the gold

image can be patched or updated without aecting the user

data and settings.

VMware ThinApp

VMware ThinApp is an agentless application virtualization

solution that streamlines application delivery while eliminating

conflicts. As part o VMware View, ThinApp simplifies repetitive

administrative tasks and reduces storage needs or virtual

desktops by maintaining applications independently rom the

underlying OS. Application Assignment integrated with View

Administrator enables IT admins to centrally assign applications

to individual View desktops or pools o desktops.

Learn more about VMware ThinApp

http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp

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Learn more about VMware products:

http://www.vmware.com/products

VMware vShield Endpoint

VMware vShield Endpoint allows you to ooad key antivirus and

anti-malware unctions to a hardened, tamperproo security

virtual machine, eliminating agent ootprint. It optimizes antivirus

and other host and endpoint security or use in VMware vSphere

and VMware View environments.

VMware Security Server

This component o VMware View provides a secure way or

remote users to access the View environment, over an unsecured

WAN or over the internet.

VMware View Architecture

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Resources

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you install, configure and troubleshoot VMware View.

Hear what our customers have to say. Read our case studies

or attend a local VMware User Group.

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