Stay current with latest technologies

VDI-in-a-Box 5.2 supports the latest Windows and hypervisor technologies including XenServer 6.1, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012, and VMware vSphere / ESX 5.1. Whatever platform you run, VDI-in-a-Box takes advantage of the best that these platforms have to offer.

VDI-in-a-Box 5.2 provides Windows Server 2012 as virtual desktop in a Windows 8 skin and also allows IT to leverage Microsoft SPLA licensing.

Even simpler and more intuitive

Point-and-click wizards guide you through key virtual desktop administration tasks such as desktop image preparation and updates. VDI-in-a-Box 5.2 has an expanded set of wizards to cover every frequent operation.

Setting up and upgrading master images has never been simpler. With VDI-in-a-Box 5.2, the desktop agent is automatically installed whenever a master image is created or updated. This “touchless” desktop agent (dtAgent) saves administrator time involved in setting up and maintaining desktop images.

Windows desktop administrators are now enabled to specify complete names to VDI desktops. This full control over virtual desktop names allows administrators to automate various management routines by running scripts inside the desktops that leverage its name.

Logs are now offered in syslog format so that they can be analyzed by any third party log management and analysis tools including Splunk, Solarwinds, Loggly and others that can read and analyze the common syslogs format.

Improved high-availability and performance

VDI-in-a-Box has always had on-demand scalability and high-availability built-in. Now VDI-in-a-Box 5.2 offers high performance with an additional third datastore. IT now has a choice to assign the master images, personal desktops and pooled desktops to 3 different datastores in order to optimize for IOPS and density per physical server.

The grid-wide virtual IP address feature of VDI-in-a-Box ensures that the entire grid is accessible by one highly available virtual IP address. This ensures end-to-end high-availability regardless of the endpoint device being used and without requiring a load balancer.