Today I am excited to share VDM 2.1 has been released. We have quietly been working on this release and there was not a public beta. Although this release of VDM comes only a few short months after the initial release earlier this year there are quite a few exciting features.
Some of the features that have been added as as follows:
- Pools spanning datastores in order to better manage resources
- Localization of VDM Web Access and Client for Windows in Japanese and German
- Command line parameters for VDM Client
- Integrate MMR multimedia extensions DLL with VDM Client (Windows XP)
- Allow end users to change password
- Multiple sessions per user within a pool
- Improvements to logging
- Allow end users to restart their VM
- Defined process for bulk import of individual desktops
- VDM Configuration Backup (command-line only)
- Allow blocking of incoming RDP connections that are not from VDM Clients
- Allow VDM administrators to set default desktop (command line only)
More information, documentation and downloads can be found here:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vdi_pubs.html
Also in support of this release we have announced a certification program for thin client manufactures who want to integrate with VMware VDI using several integration methods that streamline the user experience and deployment of VMware VDI based solutions.
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/thinclient.html
Sweet!