For those of you who don’t have update notifications enabled on your iPad, VMware released a new version of their View client for the iPad. Version 1.2 brings a number of changes (as well as a new look and feel) to the client. Click here to download the new client and read below for a list of changes.

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• VMware was late to the game in bringing virtual desktops to the iPad, nearly a full year behind rival Citrix, but the release of VMware View Client for iPad a couple months ago brought VMware into.
• Such is the case with the new VMware View Client for iPad, announced and made available this morning! By the time you read this, the bits will already be available for download in the Apple App Store. Development efforts for the new client stem from VMware Product Manager Tedd Fox who is no stranger to iPad Apps.
• VMware Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure announced the availability of VMware View Client for iPad on the Apple App Store for free. Enabling Apple iPad users to access their virtual Windows desktops, applications and data from anywhere, the new VMware View Client, in combination with VMware View for delivers a modern desktop optimized for the iPad’s high.

• Embedded RSA soft token simplifies login to desktop < My favorite!
• Optimized for VMware View 5 with improved performance
• Support for iOS 5 including AirPlay
• Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay
• Background tasking to move between Windows and iOS apps
• Updated look and feel
• Integrated online help
• Buffered text input for multibyte text entry
• Now in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
• Bug Fixes

Mar 09, 2011 The new View iPad Client was released today and it is truly amazing. VMware Engineers have obviously put in a tremendous amount of work to make a very useful and functional iPad Client for View (APPLAUSE!) The View iPad Client is a FREE APP on the iTunes Store and you can download it here; It supports PCoIP only so you won’t be using it like. IPad VMware Horizon Client for iOS makes it easy to work on your VMware Horizon virtual desktop and hosted applications from your iPhone or iPad, giving you on-the-go access from any location. IMPORTANT NOTE: A VMware Horizon virtual desktop or hosted application is required to use the VMware Horizon Client for iOS.

Setting up your iPad to connect into VMware View 5….Let’s be honest, the only really “cool” reason to run VMware View 5 in the home lab is its ability to use their native VMware View Client for iPad !!! As the last part of our install series, we are going to use this process to validate that all the hard work has paid off. Once you are done with this blog post, you should successfully log into one of your View desktop !!

Here is a quick recap of what we’ve done so far:

• We troubleshooted View 5 ODBC Connection Servers

This is a quick HOWTO setup your iPad to connect into your brand new VMware View 5 environment.

First things first, VMware recently did a REALLY nice update to their View Client. They added the following features into an already feature packed application:

• Optimized for VMware View 5 with improved performance
• Support for iOS 5 including AirPlay – <—FTW !!!
• Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay <—Can’t WAIT to test this!!
• Embedded RSA soft token simplifies login to desktop
• Background tasking to move between Windows and iOS apps
• Updated look and feel
• Integrated online help
• Buffered text input for multibyte text entry
• Bug Fixes

So, now lets install the VMware View for iPad 1.2 client to your iPad – it can be found here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vmware-view-for-ipad/id417993697?mt=8

1. After you download the Client, you will see the below ICON on your iPad – click on it.

2. Since this is your first install, you need to “Add View Connection Server”. Click it.

3. Type in the name of your View Connection Server

4. Accept – Continue past the security certificate

5. The end user will add their AD credentials (or in my case, my admin one).

6. Based on your credentials, you should see desktop pools that you’ve been “entitled” to. In this case, we only have 1 pool so that’s the one we see. Lets click on it to proceed.

7. BOOM !!! Looks like ALL is setup correctly !!!

8. Notice some of the gestures that are available to you in the iPad App.

9. If you sneak over to View Manager – Pools – Inventory – you will see that Desktop-01 has been connected to by a user. Composer also fired up another desktop as part of the rules we setup to keep 2 up and waiting at all time.

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THAT’S IT !!! WE are DONE !!! Congrats on deploying your View5 environment in your home lab. Now go play around with the various settings and features.