Windows 7 Migration with VMware View
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Agenda
Market Drivers
Windows 7 Migration with VMware
VMware Solution Overview
Customer Success
New Year Promotion
Resources and Next Steps
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Why Migrate Now?
Aging infrastructure
• Economy forced IT to extend desktops to 5yrs; laptops to 4yrs
Windows XP with deep roots and large install base (8 years old)
• Commercial application vendors have to start porting applications to Windows 7
Windows XP support squeezed
• Extended support contracts for Windows XP become costly
Windows 7 viewed as “Windows Vista SP3”
• Companies committed to migration have already started migration with Vista
Thousands of legacy applications will be incompatible on
Windows 7
• Application migration is very expensive and time consuming to recode & recertify
Begin Windows 7 Migration with VMware ThinApp
 Virtualize Windows XP or Vista
applications using ThinApp
 Start Windows 7 Pilot deployment
 Use VMware View to deploy Windows 7
as virtual desktop with full application
compatibility
VMware Windows 7 Migration
VMware View & ThinApp
easiest
fastest
ROI 7
The =
easiest
andand
fastest
ROI Windows
Migration solution
Immediate Benefits
Long Term Benefits
• Seamless and faster migration with
combined solution
• Extend life of existing applications
• Reduced regression testing of
applications
• Ensured business continuity with
enterprise proven reliability of vSphere
• Reduced CapEx and OpEx spending
• Faster time to market
• Reduced risk
• Deliver the best desktop experience to
end users at lowest cost
Win 7 Migration with VMware
VMware ThinApp for application migration
• Immediate savings on application recoding cost
• Long term savings with ease of management and quick deployment
• Seamlessly fits into existing environment
2009 Reader’s Choice Award
2010 Best product in category
www.virtualizationreview.com
VMware View for desktop virtualization
• Simplify migration & management effort with centralized management of desktop and
application
• Application & Desktop images for seamless “forklift” migration
• Extend the life of existing hardware
• Save on OpEx, less cost to centrally manage desktops and apps than having to manage
both on individual end point devices
• With View users can have XP & W7 during painful transitions
ThinApp for application virtualization
Features
 Decouple applications and data from OS
 Agent-less architecture
 Wide platform and application support
 Plug into existing application management tools
Operating System
Application
App
Files
Application
App
Files
Benefits
 Enable OS migrations and streamline
application patch updates
 Enable application mobility and flexibility of
access
Application
Application
sandbox
sandbox
 Minimize the number of desktop images
managed
VOS
 Eliminate application conflicts
Operating System
 Enable the use of multiple versions of
applications
VOS
VMware View: Deliver Desktops as a Managed Service
Platform
VMware vSphere for
desktops
Management
VMware View Manager
VMware View Composer
VMware ThinApp
User Experience
PCoIP
Multi-monitor display
Multimedia
USB redirection
Printing
View Composer: streamline virtual desktop deployments
View Composer
Easily Manage Thousands of Desktops
• Decrease storage costs by 70%
• Fewer images = easier to manage
• Quick provisioning of 1 or 1,000 virtual
desktops
• Separate Base OS Image and User Data
Disks
• Simplify update, patch, and upgrade
activities while retaining user settings
• Guarantee updates and patches
View Composer with ThinApp
View Composer +ThinApp
• Redirect all application “writes” to the
user data disk, by default
• Reduce the number of master images
and size of base disk
• Provide simplified entitlement,
deployment, and management of
applications
• Seamlessly update users
• Reduce storage costs
“Application updates are
kind of a non-event now…”
Norton Healthcare
Real Customer Results – Energizing the Business
Duane M
orris®
Goal:
Simplify application delivery for 200+ applications.
Results:
Latest versions of applications are deployed in a
single click reducing updates from months to days.
Goal:
Streamline application delivery and maintenance to
hundreds of PCs at 13 remote office locations
Results:
Cut remote office visits by 90-95 percent. Remotely
update hundreds of desktops under 2 hours instead of days.
Goal:
Applications need to run from secured intranet or PC without
installation and maintain polished experience for end users.
Results:
Legacy applications ran the same from Windows 98 to
XP in user-mode. Reduced regression testing by 70%
University of Toledo – View & ThinApp
Challenges
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Limited IT resources
Difficult to secure information on local hard drives
Time consuming application upgrades
Limited availability for student lab time
No remote access to applications or University resources
Solution
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VMware View with View Composer and ThinApp
ThinApp on shared network drive
Thin clients on campus
Both LAN and WAN access
Results
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Over 2000 computers have access to over 30 virtual apps through ThinApp
500 virtual desktops
Student labs now available 24 x 7 x 365 from any network connection
Upgrades with Thin App take five minutes from single point
Able to provision virtual desktop in under two minutes
“VMware View really extends
the boundaries of the university
out to our students wherever
they are—students can access
their hard drives, applications,
and network resources even if
they’re off campus.”
—Joshua Spencer,
Desktop Development,
University of Toledo
Lead Win 7 Migration with VMware ThinApp
Windows 7 Migration with VMware View & ThinApp
The easiest and fastest ROI Windows 7 Migration solution
Business Win
• Faster time to market
• Demonstrable ROI in days
• Little to no risk – Evaluation to
operational. It just works!
• 40% of View customers deployed
ThinApp
• Reduced CapEx and OpEx
spending
Technical Win
• No clients to install & manage
• No expensive infrastructure
required
• Simply plugs into any existing ESD
framework
• Standard formats (.MSI, .EXE) –
Easily integrates into any existing
process
ThinApp New Year Promotion
Try VMware ThinApp risk free
ThinApp New Year Promotion Bundle FREE:
 One (1) license of the VMware ThinApp Packager 4.5
 Ten (10) licenses of the VMware ThinApp Client 4.5
 One (1) year of Gold Support and Subscription
For more details:
http://vmware.com/go/ThinAppNewYearPromo
ThinApp Pricing & Packaging
VMware ThinApp
Suite
VMware ThinApp
Client
1
—
VMware ThinApp Client
Licenses
(50 included)
(sold individually)
VMware Workstation for
Windows
1
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$5,000 USD
$39 USD
VMware ThinApp Packager
Price
(1 license of ThinApp
Suite required)
Support Requirements
Support and
Subscription (SnS)
Required & Sold
Separately
ThinApp also available in View Premier packages
Support and
Subscription (SnS)
Required & Sold
Separately
Resources
ThinApp Product Homepage – 60 days eval download
http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/
ThinApp Communities Forum & Contribution Portal
Find “recipes” of applications that have been virtualized
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/entdesk/thinapp
ThinApp Blogs
http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/
ThinApp Demo
https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/login.php?eval=thinapp
ThinApp Lounge – First Tuesday of every month Live session FREE with a
product expert…..
Live discussions on ThinApp topics, packaging, and general questions
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/entdesk/thinapp
More information on VMware View
http://www.vmware.com/products/view/
Download and evaluate VMware View
www.vmware.com/download/view/
Q&A
Thank You!