
After users log in to VMware Identity Manager using a smart card or an RSA SecurID or RADIUS token, users are not required to also enter Active Directory credentials in order to use a remote desktop or application.
For VMware Identity Manager integration, True SSO streamlines the end-to-end login experience. NVIDIA GRID acceleration for more graphical workloads per server, better performance, and a superior remote user experience. Reduced device power consumption for longer battery life. H.264 support for the best performance across more devices. End users can select the VMware Blast display protocol when connecting to remote desktops and applications. Administrators can select the VMware Blast display protocol as the default or available protocol for pools, farms, and entitlements. VMware Blast Extreme is now fully supported on the Horizon platform. Conditional policies based on user location, desktop tagging, pool name, and Horizon Client registry values. PCoIP session control through PCoIP profiles. Control of the clipboard cut-and-paste, client drive redirection, USB redirection, and virtual printing desktop features through defined policies. VMware Identity Manager is now fully integrated with the Cloud Pod Architecture feature. The Cloud Pod Architecture feature now allows home site assignments for nested AD security groups. Home site administration is now fully supported in View Administrator. In the event that resources at a user’s home site are exhausted or otherwise not available, the user is now automatically directed to available desktops at other sites.
The Cloud Pod Architecture feature now supports a pod federation of up to 25 pods across up to five sites for a scale of 50,000 sessions.
View storage accelerator is automatically enabled. Clones are automatically rebalanced across available datastores. Recreating a desktop pool with a new OS image can be accomplished in a fraction of the time it takes a View Composer desktop pool because the parent image can be prepared well ahead of the scheduled time of pool recreation. A fully functional desktop can be provisioned in two seconds or less. A new type of desktop virtual machines that can be provisioned significantly faster than the traditional View Composer linked clones. Here is the what’s new in Horizon 7.0 former Horizon View: Instant Clones VMware has released Horizon 7.0 and the Suite, this also means a new version af the Horizon Client 4.0, and other, links to release notes, at the bottum for this.