Instant clone enhancements include multiple NIC, standard network support and Sysprep support.This is not an exhaustive list of the many enhancements we have delivered in Horizon 8 over the last 2 years, but here are a few highlights: You can get all the feature details by reading Release Notes from Horizon 8 (2006) onwards. Even if you don’t want or need to use anything available right now, you might in the future, and upgrading now puts you in a position to take advantage much more quickly. So, if you want to take advantage of anything new over the last two years, you need to upgrade.

There are no new features being added to versions prior to Horizon 8. If you are still on Horizon 7, you can’t take advantage of many improvements and fixes that you could be using to improve your administrative and user experience. Now, two years later, we have provided a few updates to the guide, and we want to encourage you again to move from Horizon 7 to Horizon 8 for two major reasons: new capabilities and support.įigure 1: There have been 6 releases of Horizon 8 at the time of this blog Horizon 8 has some great new capabilities This work needs to be done before upgrading to Horizon 8, as the technologies that were used in Horizon 7 listed above are not available in Horizon 8. At the time of launch, we released the Modernizing VDI for a New Horizon guide to help you move from legacy technologies, such as Linked Clones, Profile Disks, and View Persona, to more modern technologies such as Instant Clones and DEM. We want to make sure you have the resources you need to plan, complete, and upgrade. VMware launched Horizon 8 (2006) in the summer of 2020, and while many of you have upgraded your Horizon 7 environments to Horizon 8, we are hearing that some of you have not.

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