Thousands of companies that have already realized the financial benefit of server virtualization are now discovering equally powerful new opportunities on the client side. Once again, VMware is playing a leading role, this time with its VMware View 5 product. Until now, however, technical information about VMWare View 5 has been scattered throughout multiple white papers and documents, making deployment more challenging than necessary. In VMware View 5, leading virtualization consultant Paul Oâ„¢Doherty brings together all of this critical information, adding deep insights and best practices drawn from his extensive experience deploying virtual desktop technology in many of todayâ„¢s most demanding business environments. Oâ„¢Doherty walks through every step from the earliest planning phases through configuration, implementation, and management. He illuminates crucial considerations ranging from changes to end-user experience and support considerations through performance management. Readers will learn how to plan and smoothly stage virtual desktop infrastructure deployments, and avoid pitfalls associated with latency, scalability, storage, and networking. Using this bookâ„¢s proven techniques, virtualization professionals can achieve the full promise of virtualized desktops, dramatically improving system administration productivity while building environments that are more flexible and easier to manage.

Paul O’Doherty is a Cloud Solution Manager at Onx.com, specializing in the architecture and delivery of cloud-based services. Prior to that, Paul spent 10 years as the Managing Principal Consultant at Gibraltar Solutions architecting and delivering

end-user computer and virtualization environments in Fortune 500 companies involving VMware, VMware View, Citrix XenApp, and XenDesktop technologies. Paul has a broad range of infrastructure experience and has achieved numerous industry certifications such as VCP, CCEA, MCITP, RCSP, and is recognized as a VMware vExpert. In addition, Paul maintains a blog at http://virtualguru.org and has contributed to sites such as http://virtualization.info and is reoccurring speaker at VMUG sessions and other technical conferences.

1. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Overview
2. VMware View Architecture
3. VMware View 5 Implementation
4. Application Virtualization
5. Building Your Virtual Desktop
6. VMware vShield Endpoint
7. A Rich End User Experience
8. Offline Desktops
9. Migrating from Older Versions of View
10. Operations
11. High Availability Considerations
12. Performance and Monitoring