Vmware, Inc.

Sivaprasad Kundoor Govindankutty

Jubish Kulathumkal Jose

Noble Peter Aranjani

Smitha Radhakrishnan

Manesh Varissery Manoharan

Raghavendra Babu B R

Sudhish Panamthanath Thankappan

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance user application preferences in a virtual computing environment. In one implementation, an application attach service is configured to identify a request to attach one or more applications to a virtual machine for an end user. In response to the request, the application attach service identifies the one or more required applications based on file type selections provided by the end user during previous virtual computing sessions, and initiates an attach process for the one or more applications to the virtual machine.

Application attachment based on user application preferences

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the management of different versions of an application for a computing environment. In one implementation, a computing environment may identify a request to update an application from a first version to a second version on a virtual machine. In response to the request, one or more storage volumes may be identified that are associated with the second version of the application, wherein the one or more additional storage volumes comprise one or more delta volumes Once the one or more storage volumes are identified, the computing environment may attach the one or more storage volumes to the virtual machine to make the second version of the application executable on the virtual machine.

Providing application versions via delta volumes

Techniques for resource allocation are described. Some embodiments provide a computing system and method for resource allocation in a virtualized computing environment comprising at least one physical computing system hosting multiple virtual machines, that performs at least some of the described techniques. In one embodiment, a user connection server is configured to receive a request for allocation of a virtual machine, for a user. The user connection server determines an attribute value of the user. Based on the attribute value of the user, allocation of physical computing resources for the virtual machine is determined. A management server is configured to boot the virtual machine for access by the user, the virtual machine booted with the determined allocation of physical computing resources for the virtual machine.

Selective allocation of physical computing resources amongst virtual machines based on user attribute values contained in user profiles

Techniques for migrating workloads across host computing systems in a virtual computing environment are described. In one embodiment, workloads executing on different host computing systems that access identical contents that are stored on storage devices are identified, with the identical contents often being cached in a cache of each of the different host computing systems. Further, migration of one or more of the identified workloads is recommended to consolidate the identified workloads on a single host computing system, thereby allowing the identical contents to be cached within the single host computing system and allowing the identified workloads to access the cached identical contents from the single host computing system after migration in accordance with the recommendation.

Migrating workloads across host computing systems based on cache content usage characteristics

A method and system for migrating a plurality of physical desktop machines to a virtual desktop infrastructure is described. Physical machines are discovered on a computer network using at least one network search criteria using a tool module. User data is then gathered from the discovered physical machines. A virtual disk image file is created for each user of the discovered physical machines. The virtual disk image file contains user specific data collected from the discovered physical machines. A destination pool of virtual machines is selected and a virtual machine in the destination pool is configured for each of the users of the discovered physical machines. The configured virtual machines include an attached user data disk (UDD) backed by a corresponding virtual disk image file. A user can then remotely access their assigned configured virtual machines.

Mass migration of desktop deployments to virtual desktop infrastructures

Techniques for delivering telephone access are provided. In one embodiment, a server system can determine a telephone number assigned to a user operating a client device. The server system can further retrieve, based on the telephone number, softphone configuration data from a telephony service, where the softphone configuration data enables a softphone associated with the client device to register itself, and the telephone number, with the telephony service. The server system can then transmit the softphone configuration data to the client device.

Softphone over Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)

Techniques for migrating workloads across host computing systems in a virtual computing environment are described. In one embodiment, a workload executing on a first host computing system that accesses contents cached in a cache of a second host computing system via a remote memory channel for a predetermined number of times is identified. Further, migration of the identified workload to the second host computing system is recommended, thereby allowing the identified workload to access the contents from the second host computing system after migration in accordance with the recommendation.

Migrating workloads across host computing systems based on remote cache content usage characteristics

Techniques are disclosed for provisioning a virtual desktop. A VM hosting the desktop may be joined to a domain using offline domain join and customized by modifying contents of a virtual disk of the VM, as per the customization requirements, without powering on the VM. While the VM is powered off, a composer application customizes the VM by applying system and user profile configuration changes and network configuration changes, as well as optionally creating a user data disk and pushing to the VM a script for formatting said disk during the VM's first power-on. In addition, while the VM is powered off, the composer invokes a domain joining tool to join the VM to a domain controller without having to reboot the VM. A snapshot is then taken of the VM, after which the VM is then powered on and the script for formatting the user data disk executes.

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Sivaprasad Kundoor Govindankutty