Security Server with PCoIP over UDP available with View 4.6

[admin]

In my October blog post A Simple Experiment, I discussed the great WAN experience that we demonstrated at VMworld Europe using View and PCoIP. What I didn’t talk a lot about was that we weren’t using an off the shelf VPN for the connection back to the US, we were actually using an early version of the View Security Server that was enhanced with native PCoIP support over UDP. VPNs that tunnel UDP over TCP/IP will be far less effective at delivering the rich user experience that PCoIP is capable of when compared to approaches that preserve the protocol control of native UDP. Mark Benson described our Security Server architecture in his posting Secure Remote Access with View and PCoIP.

I am very pleased to announce the commercial availability of the View Security Server with native PCoIP support over UDP as part of the View 4.6 release. The View 4.6 Security Server with PCoIP has exceeded our scalability expectations and matches the scalability of the View 4.5 connection broker – up to 10,000 concurrent user sessions using 5 active Connection Servers. Each View 4.6 Security Server supports up to 2,000 PCoIP gateway sessions active at any one time, however, PCoIP load characteristics in your environment may require splitting the load out across multiple Security Servers for improved performance. For View 4.6 PCoIP Security Server  configuration and deployment considerations, please reference Mark  Benson's blog post and video Setting up PCoIP Remote Access with View 4.6.

[Michelle_Laveri]

Scott,

This is great and important news. Well done to you team in getting this 4.6 release out so hard on the heels of the 4.5 GA.

One thing I would say is that bloggers like myself weren't briefed on the new release - whereas vExperts like myself are being briefied on other VMware releases which are in the pipeline. If we'd been briefed about the 4.6 release there would have been a tidal wave of blogpost ready to rock 'n' roll as soon as the embargo was lifted. Perhaps something to consider next time, perhaps.

Anyway, once again well done. It's important milestone in my estimatation because that lack of compatiability - did make and break some deals previously.

Regards

Mike Laverick

RTFM Education

[admin]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the comment. I've shared your comment with the PR and Marketing folks around better in advance social media outreach.

Scott

[lefcakis]

Are there any risks to having PCIOP port facing the Internet open?  I would like to run this with a Wyse P20 over a WWAN, but I am thinking I am going to have a tough time selling it to our Network Security.  What can I offer them as proof that it is secure?