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View and ThinApp

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Im new to VDI and although I have a good understanding of View and ThinApp seperately I need to understand if/how they work together

Osetnsibly we would like to be able to have a small number of gold image builds (i.e. officd worker, home worker, 3rd party etc). These builds would contain the OS and the base applications(i.e office, outlook etc)

Using linked clones/NetApp we'd like to deliver desktops based off these clones via View

We would then further subdivide the customer groupings by department. i.e.HR, Marketing, Payroll etc and stream apps onto each of these images based on the user profile (i.e attribtute(s) in AD). In this way the Marketing users get their apps streamed onto their VDI desktop, HR theirs etc

What I need to know is can this be done today and are the tools (View/ThinApp) welll enough intergrated to provide the configuration/management tools to make this possible? Is this good practice, is anyone doing it in production and how does it perform? How many ThinApp servers you need and what size?

Ideally we want to use linked clones to minimise the storage footrpint and not have to manage tens or hundreds of builds. What we want is standard builds deleivered off the storage array and specific apps streamed on top. Sounds great but are tools in place to allow us to do all this?

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