Administrator Guide

Blast feature matrix on ThinOS

Table 17. Blast feature matrix

Blast features Support on ThinOS Comments/ Known issues

H.264 offload Yes N/A

VDI desktops Yes N/A

RDSH desktops Yes N/A

RDSH applications Yes Application window does not support Seamless mode. For example, all

applications open in single window because of the VMware limitation.

RDSH application supports the PCoIP protocol—Limited support.

Unified communication No Third-party plug-ins are not available.

Microsoft Lync VDI plug-in No N/A

Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV) Yes N/A

Skype for Business Yes N/A

Windows Media MMR No N/A

Flash URL multicast No N/A

Printer redirect Yes Supports printer redirection, and printer mapping with virtual print.

Smartcard redirect Yes N/A

Scanner redirect No N/A

Serial port redirect No N/A

USB redirect—VDI/ RDSH Yes Enabled by default.

Client drive redirect No N/A

Linux desktop Yes N/A

Copy Paste text Yes See, VMware Horizon server and client configurations/documentation.

NOTE: You can only copy text strings from ThinOS local and

paste in the Blast session.

VPN connect Yes N/A

AES 128/256 Yes See, ThinOS AES design.

Multi-display/ 4K/ 32-bit Yes See, VMware Blast support information. For example, the prerequisite is

VM video RAM.

ClearType fonts support No ThinOS supports TrueType fonts.

3D display Yes See, VMware Blast support information.

Blast recovery from network

interrupt

Yes Requires Horizon View agent 7.0.1.

For more information about VMware Horizon Blast, see VMware documentation.

Configuring the connection brokers