Quest vWorkspace is the next generation solution for provisioning, deploying, and managing enterprise desktop infrastructures. Our 6th generation solution offers the most comprehensive virtual desktop management capabilities bar none. Coupled with our industry-first Experience Optimized Protocol, desktop virtualization concepts now can turn into reality.

Future-Proof Your Investment in Virtual Desktop Management
Not only does Quest vWorkspace support every major hypervisor available, the desktop management platform simultaneously supports and fully integrates and automates application delivery, desktop deployment, and management from all the relevant solutions: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX, Virtual Iron and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers. This unprecedented level of flexibility ensures that customers’ investment in vWorkspace is future-proof. As customers contemplate migrating to more cost-effective next generation solutions such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services, they are assured a seamless transition without a rip-and-replace exercise.

Quest vWorkspace makes desktop virtualization affordable, flexible, easy to manage, as well as achievable, for your organization:

       Blend virtual desktop and application technology for lowest cost; mix and match hosted VDI, local/offline VDI, Terminal Server/RD Session Host, and application virtualization

       Minimize the effects of network latency on end users in branch offices, home offices and offshore locations with patent-pending technology

       Accelerate screen updates, images and multimedia content for an amazing user experience on different connections and devices with our Experience Optimized Protocol (EOP)

       Choose among a variety of platforms, technologies, storage solutions, protocols, access devices and licensing options

       Automate virtual desktop management tasks and reduce administration costs as well as simplify the customization of users' desktop environments

       Enable a quick start-up and smooth continual administration of your virtual desktop infrastructure with wizard-driven installation and configuration, and a library of PowerShell cmdlets in the vWorkspace Community

       Secure user and administrator access with SSL gateway, delegated administration and optional multi-factor authentication

       View rich reporting capabilities including administrative actions, desktop state and environment configuration at the push of a button

       Ensure your project gets started in the right direction with a free desktop virtualization assessment tool

System Requirements

For a successful deployment, we recommend the following:

vWorkspace Connection Broker

       Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86/x64, 2008 x86/x64, 2008 R2

       2 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 MB free disk space

       SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 or SQLExpress 2005/2008

       NET Framework 3.5 or later

Web Access

       Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86/x64, 2008 x86/x64, 2008 R2, IIS 6.0 or later

       1 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 100 MB free disk space

       .NET Framework 3.5 or later

       RADIUS authentication via Quest Defender, RSA SecurID 5.x, 6.x and 7.1, and WinRADIUS

       Browser support: IE 6+, Firefox 1+, Chrome for Windows

Secure Gateway

       Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86/x64, 2008 x86/x64, 2008 R2

       1 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 1MB free disk space vWorkspace Connection Broker

Virtualization Platforms

       Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

       2008 R2 RD Session Host, 2008 Terminal Server, 2003 Terminal Server (32 and 64 bit)

       Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

       Parallels Virtuozzo Containers (PVC) 4.6 running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 containers, and PVC 4.0 and 4.5 running Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 containers, x86 and x64

       VMware ESX versions 3, 3.5 U4, 4.0 and 4.1 (via VirtualCenter/vCenter)

       Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)

Virtualization Platform Management

       Microsoft System Center VMM 2008 R2

       Windows Server 2008 R2 Connection Broker

       Parallels PIM 4.0 and PVA 4.5

       VMware vCenter Server 2, 2.5, 4.0 and 4.1

Storage Management

       Microsoft Differencing Disks with Hyper-V R2 and SCVMM 2008 R2

       NetApp FlexClone with Data Ontap 7.3.1 or later and the following filer models: FAS2000 series, FAS3000 series, FAS3100 series, AS6000 series and NearStore® R200

       VMware Linked Clones (with vCenter Server versions 2.5, 4.0, and 4.1 and ESX 3.5 U4, 4.0 and 4.1)

vWorkspace Connectors (Clients)

       Windows XP to 7, 2003, 2008 (32 and 64 bit)

       Mac OS X 10.5.5 or later

       Linux: Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04, and 9.10; Debian 5.0 (Lenny), Fedora Core 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.5

       Java

       Thin clients from HP, Wyse and many other manufacturers

       iPad 3.2 or later

       Zero PCs (Repurposed PCs) – 512MB RAM, 1GHz Pentium or better