[THIN] Re: Desktop
- From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:57:01 -0700
I still say it would be better if there was a XP version of Virtuozzo
instead of a skinned version of Windows 2003. What advantage would
Virtuozzo for VDI have over a conventional SBC Desktop? I would say from a
Presentation Server vs XenDesktop standpoint, PS with Virtuozzo would be a
better solution that Virtuozzo and XenDesktop. Why? Because you can
publish applications (set up each VE as a 1 user terminal server for
application isolation).
I?m not disputing that Virtuozzo isn?t efficient and scalable but you have
to consider why it is you?re choosing a VDI solution over a SBC solution.
What is it you?re getting out of a VDI solution that you can?t get out of
SBC? Virtuozzo is a moot point because everything it offers for a VDI
solution, it also offers for SBC.
Joe
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Rick Mack
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:19 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Desktop
Hi Mads,
NO argument, Virtuozzo is brilliant from a scalability and efficiency
viewpoint, particularly when compared to using hypervisors.
Because you're doing operating system partitioning instead of hosting
separate instances of an operating system, it's nearly as scalable as
terminal services.
I was a fan of Virtuozzo years before SWsoft became Parallels.
Nevertheless, it's more a virtualization platform than a VDI product because
it's missing a lot of the little bits that round out a complete solution VDI
solution. Stuff like published applications, UPD USB redirection,
multi-media support etc.
If you add Provision Network's VAS, which links into Virtuozzo, then you
have a real VDI solution ;-)
regards,
Rick
--
Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division
On 3/31/08, Mads Sørensen <gasmadske@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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