Quite a lot of my customers are running Horizon View as their Desktop virtualisation solution and a few days ago, 2017-03-16, VMware released a new version meaning the most current Horizon View version is now 7.1. For a dot release I must admit there are quite a lot of new features and enhancements. To name a few new that looks really interesting from my point of view and also based on customer input I would say:
- VMware Blast Extreme
- URL redirection for Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA)
- Security where you can hide domain and server information
- Instant Clone new features
- Server component support for Windows Server 2016
Thew complete list of new features and enhancements includes the following:
- VMware Blast Extreme with e.g.:
- Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport (BEAT) networking
- URL Content Redirection Enhancements
- Improvement for Cloud Pod Architecture
- Horizon for Linux 7.1 Desktops Enhancements
- Smart Card Authentication
- Published Desktops and Applications
- Instant Clones
- Virtual Desktops
- Cloud Pod Architecture Enhancements
- ADM and ADMX Template Files where ADMX templates are added and AMD templates are deprecated
- IPv6 Environment
- Horizon PowerCLI
- Operating Systems for Instant-Clone Remote Desktops
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2016
- vSphere Platform
- vSphere Virtual Machine Encryption (in vSphere 6.5) for full clone desktop pools is supported.
- Access Point
See the Horizon View release notes for a full description of all new features and enhancements.
Download the software:
Horizon View Documentation can be found here and some additional resources can be found here