What is VMware Horizon?
VMware Horizon Mirage is a layered image management solution that separates a desktop, laptop, or virtual endpoint into logical layers that are owned and managed by either your IT organization or the end user. You can update IT-managed layers while maintaining end-user files and personalization. To maximize end-user productivity, snapshots and backups of layered endpoint images enable quick recovery or rollback in case of failure.
When Horizon Mirage is installed on a PC or virtual desktop, it scans the entire device and categorizes all of its contents into a number of logical layers. Horizon Mirage doesn’t move anything around on the PC or virtual desktop. It just categorizes the data, so that your IT staff can perform more granular management of the endpoint.
Horizon Mirage then sends a complete copy of that endpoint image to the Mirage Server, which resides in the data center and keeps it synchronized. If an end user goes offline, Horizon Mirage performs a synchronization the next time that user comes back online. That synchronization includes the updates IT has made to the IT-managed layers, as well as changes that the end user has
made to the system.
Images managed by Horizon Mirage can run directly on a desktop or laptop—or inside a virtual machine with VMware Fusion
Professional or VMware® Horizon View®. End users can leverage local compute power, such as CPU or graphics, whether they are
online or offline.
BENEFITS
Simplify the PC or virtual endpoint by transforming it into centralized, layered image services.
Manage and secure endpoint images centrally to lower IT costs through built-in backup and recovery.
Empower end users with a personalized desktop experience and optimized productivity.
VMware Horizon Mirage is a layered image management solution that separates a desktop, laptop, or virtual endpoint into logical layers that are owned and managed by either your IT organization or the end user. You can update IT-managed layers while maintaining end-user files and personalization. To maximize end-user productivity, snapshots and backups of layered endpoint images enable quick recovery or rollback in case of failure.
When Horizon Mirage is installed on a PC or virtual desktop, it scans the entire device and categorizes all of its contents into a number of logical layers. Horizon Mirage doesn’t move anything around on the PC or virtual desktop. It just categorizes the data, so that your IT staff can perform more granular management of the endpoint.
Horizon Mirage then sends a complete copy of that endpoint image to the Mirage Server, which resides in the data center and keeps it synchronized. If an end user goes offline, Horizon Mirage performs a synchronization the next time that user comes back online. That synchronization includes the updates IT has made to the IT-managed layers, as well as changes that the end user has
made to the system.
Images managed by Horizon Mirage can run directly on a desktop or laptop—or inside a virtual machine with VMware Fusion
Professional or VMware® Horizon View®. End users can leverage local compute power, such as CPU or graphics, whether they are
online or offline.
BENEFITS
Accelerate Windows 7 Migrations
Horizon Mirage accelerates the most common approaches to Windows 7 migrations: upgrading an existing Windows XP
device to Windows 7 or migrating an end user’s profile and files to a new Windows 7 machine. In addition, Horizon Mirage takes
a full snapshot of the Windows XP system before it attempts the migration, so if something goes wrong, you can quickly restore
the end user to the previous well-known state.
With these enhancements to a Windows 7 migration project, a 5,000-person organization could easily save USD $600,000 in IT time and more than USD $1,000,000 in user productivity
Simplify PC Backup and Desktop Recovery
Whether you need to reimage a desktop, replace a broken hard drive, replace a lost or damaged PC, or roll back a malfunctioning PC to a previously working snapshot, restoring the desktop can be difficult. Horizon Mirage takes snapshots of an entire PC— including OS, applications, files and personalization—and restores an exact image of the end user’s old system to any replacement device.
Easily Manage Remote and Branch Office PCs Without Added Infrastructure
Horizon Mirage was designed to excel over the WAN by leveraging deduplication capabilities, both in storage and during network transfers. This gives IT a powerful tool for managing laptops and desktops used by remote offices, home workers and traveling employees. Horizon Mirage centralizes exact copies of these endpoint PCs over the WAN and into the data center.
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