This post might be better suited for the vmware view forums but I wanted to post here considering this is infrastructure planning related.

I am trying to understand the real benefits of software like View vs. simply publishing a static VM that the user would connect to daily. The only real advantages I see are the that VM's can be shutdown when the user logs off to conserve resources on the esx hosts and start up again when the user connects to the broker service, quicker deployment of desktop images and maybe some centralized auditing from the vm's themselves into a central vmware console.

Since we use vpshere with ha and drs im not really seeing a great deal of advantages vs. just setting up a vm and letting it run 24/7. Maybe because we looking at only publishing about 100 out of our 400 local user base to vm's it does not really make sense unless you are in a larger environment?

Im curious if others can reaffirm this or whether there is in fact some more legitimate reasons to using view that I am overlooking for a situation like ours.