This chapter analyzes the strategies and techniques used to migrate a user population from a physical desktop environment to a virtual desktop solution. While many VDI solutions will be part of the new construction and not involve the migration of users, the majority of VDI solutions to be implemented will involve some components of user migration. This chapter covers the following topics:
Separating personas from the operating environment
The use of VMware View user data disks
Operational considerations with user data
To help ensure success of the overall VDI endeavor, it is important to minimize the perceived impact of the transition to the end users. Part of this impact minimization is understanding how to properly migrate user-specific data, also known as the user's persona.
A user's persona consists of user preferences, application settings, themes, shortcuts, favorites, printers, and other unique configurations. In order to decouple a user's persona from...