Deploying Applications Within Virtual Desktops

You can deploy applications into the golden image, and create a pool of identical desktops each with the exact same copy of applications.

If you are deploying an instant-clone desktop pool, when the time comes to patch the applications across all the desktops, you can simply update the golden image and use the push image feature to quickly propagate the changes across all the desktops in the pool on a rolling basis. When a user logs off an instant-clone virtual desktop, VMware Horizon deletes the instant clone and creates a fresh new instant clone from the latest version of the golden image. This new clone is ready for the next user to log in. With rolling updates, the downtime associated with pool maintenance can be minimized.

You can use this feature for the following tasks:

• Applying operating system and software patches and upgrades
• Applying service packs
• Adding applications
• Adding virtual devices
• Changing other virtual machine settings, such as available memory