VMware View and AppSense

User Virtualization

Vmware view 4 and AppSense

Used with VMware View, AppSense extends desktop policy and personalization capabilities in enterprise environments to reduce desktop management and cost. AppSense technology works with VMware View to enable low cost, standard desktop images to be delivered to employees as fully configured and personalized desktops. This ensures maximum user adoption from just a single desktop image - reducing cost, complexity and risk.

By managing user data independent of the virtual desktop, AppSense ensures users experience the highest quality working experience from just a few corporate desktops. AppSense also reduces the complexity of migrating to VMware View 4 as well as enabling IT to reduce storage requirements.

How AppSense technology adds value to VMware View

AppSense is the only technology to support mixed virtual desktop environmentsTraditional profile management technology has limitations in larger, enterprise-class environments. AppSense provides policy and personalization management in heterogeneous desktop estates, enabling employees to experience the same personal desktop regardless of client OS, delivery technology or accessing device. Specifically environments with:

  • Multiple application virtualization solutions (e.g. ThinApp, App-V, Citrix, InstallFree)
  • Multiple OS platforms (XP, Vista, 7) and profile versions (Version 1 & Version 2)
  • Offline devices and locally installed applications
  • Multiple geographical sites and concurrent desktop sessions

AppSense technology accelerates View implementations with:

  • Simple creation and maintenance of policy actions
  • On-the-fly dynamic policy changes during a user-connected session not just at logon
  • Granular configuration based on user or device context

AppSense can reduce storage requirements and enable non-persistent virtual desktops:

  • Configure and personalize a standard desktop image
  • Enable a non-persistent linked clone model
  • Significantly reduce storage requirements and costs

AppSense provides additional remediation and user visibility tools with:

  • Self healing of settings, files services and processes
  • Rollback personalization settings on a per application basis
  • Lockdown and removal of menus, features, accessibility
  • Disaster recovery and failover support
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