Part of VMware’s VDI vision is a technology called VMware View. VMware View allows multiple VMs to share the same disk image. This is similar to Citrix’s Ardence Provisioning Server technology. This type of technology is key in a VDI environment. Otherwise, you have to clone and manage a desktop disk image for each desktop VM. This is also wasteful of disk resources. Brian Madden put together a nice overview of VMware View and VMware View Composer. Brian breaks down this technology from VMware to give you the highlights, pros, cons, etc. A few comparisons to Citrix’s Provisioning Server are thrown in there too. It’s a good read to get your head around the concept.

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