[THIN] Re: Desktop
- From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:38:37 -0700
I?m not sure I agree with this? If you?re just looking to deliver an XP
Themed desktop then a conventional SBC solution is still the way to go.
Here a few reasons why companies are looking at VDI:
Simplification of workflow (a VDI desktop looks, functions and can be
managed in the same exact way (or little change) that a traditional
workstation is). SBC is traditionally a Server Team responsibility. VDI
is/will become a Desktop Team responsibility. Virtuozzo add complexity by
changing the deployment workflow tools and methodology. It also grays the
area of management responsibility. (Who manages it? Server team or
Desktop). A Virtuozzo based will require companies to hire highly skilled
administrators to implement and maintain the system. Much like they have to
do with SBC solutions.
Hypervisor based technology is easy to understand and explain
Hypervisor based technology is better overall at isolating the user?s
session and application.
Hypervisor based technology allows for multiple OS? Customers still have
Win9x\Win 2000 only apps.
Along the same lines, some application will only run on XP and not Windows
2003.
We?ve been find a lot of applications (for on reason or another) that use
kernel mode drivers. Something that Virtuozzo doesn?t deal with very well.
Virtuozzo does fit well with a SBC solution simply it allows for better
efficiencies for LMGs (Silos).
Joe
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mads Sørensen
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:32 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Desktop
Now we are talking VDI products, I think one of the best VDI products out
there right now is "Parallels Virtuozzo 4.0", The beauty is that it uses the
container technology on a Windows Server 2003 and with almost no overhead.
So with a Windows Server 2003 Datacenter license and the XP Theme service,
you can start as many desktops as you want or twice as many as you could
with some other VDI software on one server :-). It has a really good
management interface and I could go on. But as Rick also writes it may not
be the place to discuss this.. so I'll stop her.. but it's really worth
taking a look at.
/Mads
2008/3/30, Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Steve,
I think I've pushed the bounds far enough. I've always felt that this wasn't
the forum for commercial exploits, but I couldn't resist a little dig.
Sorry.
Besides, would you really appreciate my giving you the complete spiel on
Provision Network's VAS?
Provision do have a great VDI product that's only getting better, but if you
want to find out about it contact me offline, rick.mack@xxxxxxxxx, I'll be
happy to oblige.
regards,
Rick
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Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division
On 3/30/08, Steve Greenberg <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rick,
Tell us more about that VDI product?.!
Steve Greenberg
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