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Feature Summary

Unidesk provides all the capabilities you need for successful VDI deployments in one, comprehensive solution.

Storage Efficiency
Single instance storage Stores single instances of Microsoft Windows operating system images and common applications for all VDI desktops. Leverages CacheCloud image delivery technology to make cached copies available to groups of desktops to maximize performance.
Thin provisioning Requires that you provision only as much storage as is actually in use by each desktop layer. Enables you to treat personalization layers as user "quotas." For example, assign users 5GB of space for their user-installed applications and data, but if a user only uses 100MBs, you don't need to allocate more than 100MBs of storage.
I/O load balancing Distributes IOPS across low-cost storage with CacheCloud virtual appliances to alleviate virtual desktop boot storm and 9AM login issues.
Storage flexibility Supports any type of storage that your hypervisor supports, including SAN, NAS, or DAS, using storage-agnostic CacheCloud architecture.

Full User Personalization and Profile Persistence
User profiles Captures all profile changes that users make while logged into their VDI desktops in isolated personalization layers. Sustains profiles through logouts and reboots. Dynamically composites personalization layers after Windows patches, upgrades, and updates to ensure profile persistence.
User-installed applications Captures all applications and plug-ins that users install while logged into their VDI desktops in isolated personalization layers. Sustains user-installed applications (UIAs) through logouts and reboots. Dynamically composites personalization layers after Windows patches, upgrades, and updates to ensure UIA persistence.
User data Captures all documents and data files that users save locally in any desktop directory while logged into their VDI desktops in isolated personalization layers. Sustains data through logouts and reboots. Dynamically composites personalization layers after Windows patches, upgrades, and updates to ensure data persistence.

Application Packaging, Patching, and Delivery
Simple application packaging and delivery Provides the ability to package any application in a container separately from your Microsoft Windows base image for delivery to one or more desktops. The packaging process requires no sequencing or scripting. Simply select a virtual machine and any prerequisite containers, install the application you want to package just as you would on a normal desktop, and then "finalize it."
Complete application compatibility Supports packaging and delivery of any application, even business-critical applications that application virtualization tools cannot support, such as anti-virus applications, VPN software, printers, and other applications that require system services or boot-time drivers.
Application virtualization interoperability Packages and distributes applications already packaged by VMware ThinApp™ and other application virtualization tools to provide centralized software distribution, versioning, and control.

Microsoft Windows Image Provisioning, Patching, and Management
Gold image import Leverages your existing Microsoft Windows base image so you can immediately begin provisioning desktops that offer users full, persistent personalization while economizing on storage.
Single image management, packaging and delivery Packages your Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7 operating systems in separate containers for instant assignment and delivery to one or more desktops.
Simple image patching and upgrade Lets you change the Windows gold image assigned to one or more desktops just by selecting a different operating system container. Apply multiple hot fixes and service packs once to your gold image, and guarantee deployment of the updated image to all assigned desktops.

Interoperability
Connection broker-agnostic Works with VMware View™, Citrix XenDesktop™, Leostream™, Pano Logic, and other leading VDI connection brokers.
Hypervisor-agnostic Works with VMware vSphere™ and VMware ESX™. Architecture is designed to support any hypervisor - stay tuned for announcements regarding support for Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.
Microsoft Active Directory integration
  • Enables assignment of desktops and applications based on Active Directory group memberships or any other attribute.
  • Provides "Google-like" search using any Active Directory attribute (for example - last name, phone extension, and department) to filter your view for fast response to move/add/change and desktop support requests.
  • Requires no write permissions to Active Directory. Read-only rights are sufficient for full integration.
  • Grafts untrusted Active Directory forests into a single view to enable fast and easy assignment of desktops and applications to users who span locations and business units.

Virtual Desktop Lifecycle Management
Application and operating system versioning Tracks application and operating system changes with an intuitive versioning system which simplifies patch management and application delivery.
Application and operating system rollback Enables the rolling back of application or operating system patches that weren't thoroughly tested to "undo" premature deployments.
Instant desktop repair without loss of data
 Permits rollback of user-installed applications, application plug-ins, and Registry keys in each Personalization layer to an earlier snapshot without losing any user data for instant, low-cost desktop repair.

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