We are pilot testing VMware Horizon View 5.2 with Windows 7 32-bit desktops and VMware Persona Management. Our users make very heavy use of Outlook 2007 and require Outlook caching to be turned on for good performance.
When you turn on Outlook caching, it creates an OST file under the user's profile directory. This file is a complete copy of their e-mail so for our users it can take up to 4GB of space and puts significant IO strain on the storage.
We are using non-persistent desktops with VMware Persona Management.
What are the best options for storing this file considering we have non-persistent desktops ? I have seen suggestions for using Persona Management, but I have also seen that some users have issues with it since it can take a long time to copy the OST from the Persona repository. Is it true that Persona Management would have to copy the entire OST file every time from the repository ? The other suggestion I saw was to use folder redirection to a network share.