A look of the new features included in VMware Horizon 6 and 6.1. As seen at RMMtech Fair 2015.

1. What’s new in VMware Horizon 6
Anthony Hook
Network Engineer
VCP5-DCV, VCP5-DT, CCENT

2. • Applications
• Graphics
• Storage
• Scalability
• Security
• Fed-Ready
• vCOPS for Horizon 6
New Features to 6 and 6.1

3. Application Delivery

4. Remote Desktop Services Enhancements
• Remote Desktop Apps and Desktops with RDS
• RDS Desktop Sessions over PCoIP
• Scanning and Imaging from RDSH Sessions
• USB mass storage device from RDSH Sessions
• SmartCard support (Finanace, Federal)
• HTML access for RDSH session-based Desktops

5. HTML Access Features
• Scale greatly increased from 350 simultaneous users to 2,000
simultaneous users per security gateway, the same as PCoIP native
clients
• Location-based printing support
• Support 3D desktops backed by NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™ technology
and vDGA for quick access through HTML Access

6. Storage – Simplified, Optimized
Support for:
• VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) – Policy-based Storage
• VMware Virtual SAN 6
• From 100 to 200 desktops per host
• From 1600 to 4000 desktops per VSAN cluster
• From 16 to 20 hosts per VSAN cluster
• Expanded hardware compatibility list
• 2000 desktops per view block in single VSAN cluster.

7. Scalability
Cloud Pod Architecture

8. Desktop Support
Windows 2012 R2 as a desktop OS
Customers can deliver a Windows 8.1 type user experience to end-users
and achieve lower TCO through more favorable Microsoft licensing

9. Third-Party SSO
This feature enables 3rd-party SSO providers to access credential
information when SSO is performed during a login to Horizon 6,
allowing the 3rd-party solutions to be tightly integrated with Horizon 6.

10. Enhanced Message Security Mode
• Higher security between VMware Horizon components
• SSL/TLS is used for all JMS connections. JMS access control is also enabled so
that desktops, security servers, and View Connection Server instances can
send and receive JMS messages only on certain topics.

11. Virtual Hardware v11
• Horizon 6 now supports virtual hardware version 11, available in
vSphere 6.0 or later versions. This feature is required for virtual
machines that use NVIDIA GRID vGPU.

12. GPU

13. Federal Government
Several new features for U.S. Federal Government Customers.
• IPv6 Support (Native only, no mixed with IPv4)
• Common Access Card (CAC) support offers simple and secure access to virtual
desktops and applications for uniformed service personnel, and efforts to
achieve Common Criteria certification are underway.

14. There’s More on the Horizon
• VMware Horizon for Linux – Red Hat and Ubuntu based desktops
• Project Local – Allows virtual applications access to files on local hard
drives and folders
• Project Arc - Project Ark demonstrates the flexible delivery of
published applications to Google Chromebooks through two separate
methodologies – a clientless approach via an HTML5 browser and a
client approach using a new lightweight Chrome client.

15. Questions, Comments?
Thanks for your time!