VMware Horizon Client

VMware Horizon Client delivers virtual or hosted desktops and applications through a single VDI platform. Provide end users access to all of their virtual desktops, applications, and online services through a single workspace in a few simple clicks.

Delivers Desktops and Applications through a Single Platform
Transform static desktops into secure, virtual workspaces that can be delivered on demand. Provision virtual or remoted desktops and applications through a single VDI platform to streamline management and easily entitle end users.

Supports a Rich, Adaptive User Experience
Provide a consistently great end user experience for knowledge workers, mobile workers and even 3D developers across devices, locations, media and connections.

Secures Data and Simplifies Compliance
Consolidate control, delivery and protection of user compute resources with end-to-end management and automation. Leverage virtual networking to simply and dynamically set security policies across groups of end users.

Dramatically Improves ROI
Dynamically allocate resources with virtual storage, virtual compute and virtual networking to simplify management and drive down costs. Reduce day to day operations costs with a single platform that allows you to extend virtualization from the data center to your devices.

• Smart cards for logging in to RDS desktops and hosted applications - Users can now authenticate to RDS-based desktops and RDS-based applications using smart cards. Requires View Agent 6.1 or later.
• USB redirection of mass storage devices on RDS desktops and hosted applications - Users can plug their USB flash drives and hard disks into their client systems and have these devices redirected to RDS-hosted desktops and applications. USB redirection of other types of USB devices, and other types of USB storage devices, such as security storage drives and USB CD-ROM, is not supported. This feature is supported on Windows Server 2012 RDS hosts. Requires View Agent 6.1 or later.
• Support discontinued for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 as client operating systems - Horizon Client for Mac OS X 3.4 must be installed on Mac OS X 10.8, 10.9, or 10.10. For more information, see Retiring Old OSes: XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7.
• Client drive redirection (Tech Preview) - Users can now share folders and drives on their Mac client systems with remote desktops and applications. This feature is called client drive redirection. Requires View Agent 6.1.1 or later.
• Using a local IME with remote applications - Users can now use an IME (input method editor) installed on their Mac client systems to send non-English characters to remote applications.
• Linux remote desktops - Administrators can set up a Linux virtual machine as a remote desktop. End users can log in to a Linux remote desktop from Horizon Client for Mac OS X. Requires View Agent 6.1.1 or later and Horizon Client for Mac OS X 3.4. Not all features are supported in this release. For more information, see Setting Up Horizon 6 for Linux Desktops.
• OpenSSL 1.0.1m support - The OpenSSL library is updated to version openssl-1.0.1m.