Today my friend Elias told me that VMware released version 3.0 (Build 127.642) of its VDI broker, formerly known as Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM).

VMware View 3.0 offers many new features such as offline VDI, which allows users to view their virtual desktops without being connected to the corporate network, using the image stored locally on their laptops.

Another new feature is “linked Clone”, which can reduce the disk space needed to deploy virtual desktops by up to 70%. It will also include a new remote desktop protocol that VMware is developing with Teradici.

VMware offers two editions of View 3.0.

The Premiere Edition includes the Hypervisor (ESX), administration console (vCenter), Connection Broker (View Manager), and the application virtualization platform (ThinApp).

 

This article has been translated from the original Spanish version written by Jose Maria Gonzalez.