Does Unidesk work with VMware Linked Clones?
Not today. Unidesk integrates with VMware View, but replaces Linked Clones. Most customers prefer to use Unidesk instead of Linked Clones for 2 reasons:
- Unidesk offers all of the single image management and storage reduction capabilities of Linked Clones, with the additional benefit of 100% persistent personalization. Unlike Linked Clones, Unidesk does not lose user-installed applications, plug-ins, profile settings, directories, data, GUIDs, and other user personalization elements each time the Microsoft Windows base image is patched or upgraded.
- Unidesk is easier to use than Linked Clones. With Unidesk, there is no need to update each Parent Virtual Machine and all of your ‘snapshots’ and re-compose your desktops each time you patch or update Windows.

