One of the core design goals of Quest vWorkspace is to provide customers with a flexible application and desktop delivery framework, regardless of the virtual infrastructure that they use. This requires us (we think) to provide advanced integration with all the leading virtual infrastructure products. To be honest, there are times that it is very evident to us that it would really be much easier to just support one (or two) virtual infrastructures (like many other vendors do), especially with new version of virtual infrastructures coming out all the time. Even though it requires significant development efforts to support  the leading virtual infrastructure products, we feel compelled to keep doing so and not choose the proverbial easy way out for us and for our customers so our customers can leverage their existing investments now and in the future.

This brings me to actual subject of this blog post: VMware vSphere. Ever since the early releases of VMware vSphere we have been working to make sure that Quest vWorkspace works with VMware vSphere to accommodate new and existing customers should they decide to use VMware vSphere as their virtualization infrastructure. It is therefore that I am happy to say that we officially support the following versions of Quest vWorkspace with VMware vSphere:

• Provision networks Virtual Access Suite 5.10 (build 161 )
• Quest vWorkspace 6.0 (HF3 )
• Quest vWorkspace 6.1

On another note, when researching vSphere I found out that VMware’s own VDI product (View) does not support vSphere yet. That really surprised me.
I guess this just emphasizes our position on providing good value for money for our customers.

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