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VMware Persona Management

Leverage Non-Persistent Linked Clones to Dramatically Lower Costs & Ease Management

Customers looking for a VMware Persona Management solution to elegantly leverage non-persistent linked clone implementations, while retaining all the benefits of user personalization, can do so today with Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity FlexApp. Non-persistent (stateless) implementation of VMware View offers many benefits to customers including reduced licensing costs, infrastructure cost savings, as well as streamlined management benefits.

Liquidware Labs is a VMware Technology Alliance partner of and closely works with the VMware View team to ensure customers have a clear, cost-effective solution that solves profile challenges in non-persistent environments. ProfileUnity FlexApp also goes beyond the limitations of Roaming Profiles and standard profile solutions to provide full user virtualization management with the ability to migrate, leverage the solution for disaster recovery, and provision new users without logon scripts or cumbersome Group Policy Preferences.

Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity FlexApp provides comprehensive VMware Persona Management. Benefits of use include one unified user profile (that lets a user logon to either Windows XP or Win 7), central management of user settings, and persistency of user persona and settings even in non-persistent VDI environments. ProfileUnity FlexApp is being used globally by companies looking to break free from Roaming Profiles and other proprietary, expensive and complex user virtualization solutions. It encompasses many enterprise features not found in basic profile solutions. ProfileUnity FlexApp boasts ease of end-user use without the need for proprietary databases or expensive, additional infrastructure. ProfileUnity FlexApp maintains user profiles using Windows’ own native format and is therefore compatible with VMware’s pending persona management solution. The innovative FlexApp feature supports user and departmental installed applications.

ProfileUnity FlexApp Goes Beyond Other VMware Persona Management Solutions
ProfileUnity FlexApp solves persona management in order to leverage linked clones. This solution goes beyond the capabilities of single OS persona management and other standard profile solutions to provide full user persona management with the following capabilities:

Supports both V1 to V2 (XP & Win 7) operating system environments seamlessly
Migrates legacy profiles to Windows 7 environments effortlessly
Automates Data Migration - harvest data from user authored areas then automatically invoke folder redirections to those areas
Offers VMware ThinApp™ Entitlement and License Management
Allows VMware ThinApp caching for offline application use
Manages ThinApp Sandboxes among any Windows session – virtual or physical
Enables the administrator to tune the profile and eliminate profile bloat
Eliminates profile corruption; ProfileUnity profiles can be easily restored to an earlier version with a DR managed server
Provides location aware settings for printers, ThinApp applications, and more
Replaces the use of login scripts for mapped drives, printers, desktop shortcuts, etc.
Enables administrators to easily provision new user settings, i.e. a new user can logon and in just 7-10 seconds be fully productive with email, printers, drives, etc.
Serves as a disaster recovery solution for any desktop - User Authored Data and Profiles are the most mission critical info and ProfileUnity securely stores both of these onto DR managed servers
Allows users to co-exist in a mixed version 1 (XP) and version 2 (Win 7) environments. Help desk supports only one profile per person, not per machine
Works across VMware, Citrix, Terminal Services, and physical PCs
Includes software and hardware inventory, often used as a quick troubleshooting mechanism for help desks

Easily Migrate Users from Physical PCs or other Windows Environments with ProfileUnity.Manage VMware ThinApp with the power of context/location aware filters in ProfileUnity.

Leverage your Investment in View Composer Today
VMware View Composer is a great solution that enables virtual architects to implement linked clone desktops to streamline desktop refresh cycles and save dramatically in storage costs. ProfileUnity enables customers to leverage this technology today without the complexity or added management of user data disk (persistent disk) methods.

Fully Compatible with VMware Persona Manager Solution
ProfileUnity FlexApp keeps profiles and user authored data in Windows’ native format. You’ll always have the option to easily manage your profiles with any other compatible solution if you choose to do so at a later date. ProfileUnity FlexApp does not create a vendor locked-in (proprietary format) profile that may be found in other solutions. Another advantage is that you can continue to use ProfileUnity in conjunction with most streamed user profile technologies. You can also still fully leverage all of the advanced enterprise features in ProfileUnity even if your profile is managed separately.

Product Family Advantage
The Liquidware Labs’ Essentials bundle combines the ProfileUnity FlexApp solution with the Stratusphere FIT and Stratusphere UX solutions to provide the end-to-end functionality needed to move through a VMware View virtual desktop deployment successfully. Stratusphere FIT can inventory and assess your current environment to aid in designing the target environment. Stratusphere UX also provides Adapter technology so users can monitor their VMware View desktop environments through VMware vCenter Operations Manager.