VMware view is made up of VMware View Composer, VMware Offline Desktop and Client Virtualization which all are directly related to VDI.

VMware View Composer – Advanced image management for virtual desktops allows you to:

•  Reduce storage cost and management by up to 90 percent
• Reduce desktop provisioning from 15 minutes to just seconds
• Manage hundreds of desktops from a single central image, retaining user settings when updating or patching service packs, application updates or even OS upgrades
• Roll back instantaneously, enabling customers to streamline management and guarantee that all user systems are up to date
• Reduce the number of images to manage

VMware Offline Desktop – Access virtual desktops whether online or offline to:

• Backup critical user data and applications for remote employees
• Create transparent user environments on the road or in the office
• Increase user productivity while decreasing management complexity and risks
• Harness local compute power for a superior PC-like end user experience while maintaining data back ups and settings

VMware Client Virtualization – With virtualization for laptops and desktops PCs you can:

• Reduce the number of PC images with hardware independent virtual desktops that run on each PC
• Provide centralized management of VDI users and virtual client users from the same management console
• Enable users to take advantage of local PC hardware for superior user experience and offline usage

VMware Infrastructure delivers the virtual datacenter OS through the following essential components:

• Application vServices guarantee the appropriate levels of availability, security and scalability to all applications independent of hardware and location.
• Infrastructure vServices subtract, aggregate and allocate on-premise servers, storage and network for maximum infrastructure efficiency.
• Cloud vServices federate the on-premise infrastructure with third party cloud infrastructure.
• Management vServices allow you to proactively manage the virtual datacenter OS and the applications running on it.

The product isn’t there yet at and will be expected in 2009.  VMWorld 2008 which starts today, will provide more details about this.

Some of the features you may see are Linked Clone, VMware CA (Continuous Availability), VCB 4.0 with Incremental & Differential, Chargeback, Improved Life Cycle Manager, ISO Manager, VMSafe, Virtual Center Clustering,  Unified Network Management and more…

Some of these features were already demoed previously in vmworld 2007.

Virtualization.info has also posted a partial list of new features here.