View Composer (an optional component)

The components covered earlier in this chapter belong to the set of mandatory components in a View solution. The major component that is optional in a View solution is the View Composer. It should be noted that when some third-party solutions such as Unidesk or storage-based cloning are used in conjunction with View, View Composer is not used. This is because solutions such as Unidesk or storage-based cloning have their own approach for handling mass provisioning of vDesktops.

View Composer is used in majority of View-based solutions today, but there are valid scenarios and solutions that do not require the use of View Composer. As this book focuses on VMware View solutions and not View with third-party components, ...

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