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Virtualization Personalization ? RTO Software and Appsense |
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Tuesday, 07 July 2009
by Michel Roth
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Allowing roaming profiles (with user customizations allowed)
resulted in long logon times and frequent corruption of profiles
– requiring a manual reset to a mandatory profile and the
loss of all customizations. Enter hybrid profiles.
Over the course of the last few years, the issue of profile
management has expanded in scope and definition. Instead of just
being a “Citrix problem” it is now also a problem for
people who roam from laptops to several always connected desktops
and who expect their customizations to follow them. One tough case
is the user who makes a customization on his laptop while on an
airplane, and then logs on next on a connected workstation and
makes a conflicting customization, and then logs on with the laptop
again. Addressing issues like this is why Symantec has recently
licensed the RTO Software Virtual Profiles product and is now
marketing it as Symantec Workspace Profiles to its customer base of
enterprises with fat client desktops. As VDI has started to
take hold, it has become apparent that VDI implementations suffer
from the exact issues that have always plagued XenApp – users
want to customize their hosted virtual desktops, but if they do
they get slow logon times and profile corruption. This problem has
also expanded beyond just the management of the profiles
themselves, into what AppSense calls “User Environment
Management, i.e., the separation of all of the data that
characterizes the uniqueness of the user and the users’
applications from the underlying operating system and the
applications themselves.
Source: http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/blog/?p=382
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