View 4 vs View 5 Performance

This post could be titled as RDP vs PCoIP on view 5 as well.

Almost 3 years I wrote about citrix vs vmware VDI here: 
http://rjalan.blogspot.com/2009/01/vmware-vdi-vs-citrix-xendesktop.html

We ended up going vmware view route as it was apropos for our use case scenario. As things change always, we have few users going for low latency links and multiple hops and we started seeing perfomance issues with view 4.
We just upgraded to view 5, and using zero client with PCoIP we are seeing almost 70-75% reduction in bandwidth usage versus regular RDP over view 5. And performance for flash and videos is considerably better. Video is still little choppy but bearable. In earlier version, it was just showing broken images being refreshed.

cool datacenter documentation software

we recently started using device42 at our company for data center documentation. So far quite impressive as it can record almost everything about servers including IP, port connected even virtual and blade support.
Coolest thing is the application or process mapping feature in the software. Once you define dependencies just to next layer, it automatically generates a visual diagram of the whole dependency chart and process flow.
Check it out at www.device42.com.