VMware View 5.1 – What’s New – Storage Features and Whitepapers

With the announcement of View 5.1, a number of enhancements have been made and new whitepapers have been released.

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Storage Optimisation

View Storage Accelerator (formerly known as Content Based Read Cache) optimizes storage load and improves performance by caching common image blocks when reading virtual desktop images, helping to reduce overall TCO in VMware View deployments.

View Storage Accelerator

View Storage accelerator in practice

Simplified Desktop Management and Deployment

VMware have continued to make advancements on all areas of EUC. Areas like Storage, desktop migrations and large scale management.

Persona Management

vCenter Operations Manager for View

View large scale environment

Enhanced End-User Experience

PCoIP Enhancements

Virtual Desktop Provisioning with VAAI

New Storage Features in VMware View 5.1

NetApp VAAI

The VMware Reference Architecture for Stateless Virtual Desktops on Local Solid-State Storage with VMware View 5

This document covers architecture for Stateless Virtual Desktop on SSDs.

Reference architecture for Stateless Virtual Desktops with VMware View 5