Regardless of license level with 8, some version of DEM comes with it. Persona is dead, pretend it doesn't exist Other than a shiny new landing page if they hit the web, there really isn't any functional difference for the end users to train them up on, so it should be relatively painless as long as you're up to date-ish on Horizon. You mention Horizon 7, this is going out of support next month, you need to upgrade to 8 now. Does anybody else have any general pros/cons of moving to an instant clone pool from where we're at now? Instant clone would be nice due to the ease and speed of getting a new VM ready for a user but I see on the VMware docs site that Persona Management is not available for Instant pools (at least in horizon 7.) I know there's other alternatives like FSLogix but we do not use O365.Īre there any other alternatives that offer a similar performance to FSLogix that don't use O365 licensing? My only fear is when doing updates to our golden image our users might lose application settings, custom settings, or anything they might save on their desktop even though they know they aren't supposed to. Right now we have a standard persistent pool where we manually create each VM and assign the VM to the user. Ideally I'd like all of our users to move to VMs but we are just not sure if during this move we move to an instant clone pool or not.

We currently have about a 50/50 split of users using VMs and not using VMs.

We are working on optimzing our VMware Horizon environment and determined that pretty much all of our users are going to need new VMs after our golden image is optimized fully.

Vmware horizon ppt