VMware View 5 Evaluator’s Guide

In March VMware published a document called VMware View 5 Evaluator’s Guide.

The document, intended for IT Professionals interested in desktop virtualization, guide the reader through an evaluation installation of the product and is subdivided into four main parts:

  1. Key New Features of VMware View 5
  2. Description of VMware View Components
  3. Setting Up a View Evaluation Environment
  4. Evaluation Tasks

From the paper introduction:

Overview of VMware View Functionality
VMware View enables users to be productive on their computer desktops when connected to the network or when offline, between network connections. View desktops run on clients of all flavors: Windows, Macintosh, thin and zero clients, iPads, and Android tablets. View desktops run on clients of all flavors:
Windows, Macintosh, thin and zero clients, iPads, and Android tablets. VMware View offers exceptional user experience and performance over a LAN or WAN. Your organization may have already adopted VMware server virtualization technology. By extending your existing server-based deployments, VMware View delivers the benefits of virtualization to the desktop. VMware View offers easy-to-use management and seamless integration with the vSphere virtual infrastructure platform.