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A firm and prosperous relationship exists between VMware®, AppSense. This relationship ensures joint customers are provided not only with leading edge virtual desktop solutions, but also future-proof technologies that they can confidently invest in for the long term.
Virtual Desktops, VDI & VMware®
AppSense Management Suite extends your virtual desktop infrastructure by providing additional levels of personalization and management (profiling) to virtual user environments, meaning each user has a consistent and optimized working experience, requiring minimal administration overhead.
How Appsense enhances your VMware® virtual environment
Using AppSense with VMware® VDI enables administrators to:
- Easily create a personalized environment for users while still enforcing company policy
- Provide individual isolated virtual desktops to end users that look and feel like their normal desktop
- Confidently deliver user environments knowing that the user experience is consistent, secure and predictable
- Maximize the number of VMware desktop images per server by optimizing use of server resources from within the virtual desktop
User Profile Management using AppSense Environment Manager™
Provide consistent, predictable and contextual virtual desktops to users, along with the ability for users to personalize their working environment. Easily maintain personalization settings across virtual machine sessions. Combine company policy with user preferences reducing maintenance costs, securing the environment and increasing user productivity.
- Central management and storage of profile information
- Enable creation of the "desktop standard"
- Maintain user preferences regardless of which virtual machine is being used
- Dynamic desktop creation, folder redirection, application and feature lockdown
Manage applications using AppSense Application Manager™
Unauthorized and unknown applications are managed within the virtual desktop, ensuring a protected desktop build and consistent user experience. Whether malicious or innocent in nature, unexpected activities are controlled, providing a safe and predictable user environment.
- Manage application access by user, group, device and using custom rules
- Prevent unauthorized execution to ensure compliance
- Tailor application access based on delivery method, user location or accessing device
Quality of Service using AppSense Performance Manager™
Use business rules to determine optimal use of system resources within the virtual desktop. Provide predictable application response times to ensure quality of service and maximize the number of virtual desktops per VMware server.
- Optimize hardware resources such as CPU, memory and bandwidth
- Mitigate application response time spikes within each virtual desktop
- By optimizing the resource use with each virtual desktop, more efficient use is made of all server resources, enabling more desktop images to be supported
Centralized Control via AppSense Management Center
The AppSense Management Center is a management console that provides centralized control of virtual desktop environments. Visibility is increased with reporting, monitoring and auditing capabilities. AppSense software is deployed using a secure and highly scalable delivery infrastructure, integrates with systems such as Active Directory and is 64-bit and MS Windows Vista™ compliant.
Why use AppSense Management Suite with VMware®?
By extending the virtual desktop infrastructure to provide a more personalized and managed working environment, IT is able to align with business goals, achieve agreed service levels and service more productive users. By optimizing the server resources utilized by each virtual desktop, more desktops can be supported on the same server.
In essence, AppSense Management Suite:
- Provides an additional level of personalization to virtual desktops
- Tailors the environment depending on the delivery paradigm, user location, or accessing device
- Prevents unauthorized code from running on the virtual desktop
- Provides consistent application response within virtual desktops
- Optimizes use of CPU and memory from within each virtual desktop, enabling more efficient use of server resources
AppSense confirms that it supports customers running AppSense Management Suite on supported Operating Systems in a VMware virtual machine environment. AppSense will provide support for AppSense Management Suite running in a VMware virtual environment in an identical manner as with AppSense Management Suite running on any other major x86 based systems without initially requiring reproduction of issues on native hardware. Should AppSense suspect that the virtualization layer is the root cause of an incident, the customer will be required to contact the appropriate VMware support provider to resolve the VMware issue.
While AppSense products are expected to function properly in a VMware virtual environment, there may be performance implications which can invalidate AppSense typical sizing and recommendations.
Download AppSense Management Suite today for a free 21 day trial.