VMware Horizon Mirage, a fantastic solution to run a migration project from windows XP to Windows 7, which is normally offered by vendor as Windows XP to Windows Vista and from Windows Vista to Windows 7.
VMware Horizon Mirage makes use of it’s Centralised Virtual Desktop image which is a layered architecture consisting of Driver Layer, Base Layer (OS+commonly used apps), Application Layer, Machine Identity & End user data layer.
During migration process, we will prepared migration base layer out of referrence Windows 7 CVD and use it to upgrade all the CVDs with windows XP. It takes help of user state migration tool (USMT) to preserve end user’s data from existing windows XP and re-load them when migration process is finished.
