Desktop virtualization
- 1. Mixing Cheap thin clients and virtualization It is not totally about “interesting hardware development that leads to a better and easier integration between solutions” but may be interesting for you.
- 3. Desktop Virtualization As you know virtualizing servers has been a trend for years BUT desktop virtualization no in comparison to Server virtualization
- 4. What is Desktop virtualization? it’s all about take a user's desktop workstation and stores it on a central server as a virtual machine. The user can then access it from anywhere using a small remote client application, which is referred to as a thin client.
- 5. Advantages of the DV: Virtual desktops provide several advantages over traditional full workstations including: easier management and simpler provisioning. Thin clients can be either low-cost dedicated hardware devices that are basically just a monitor, keyboard and mouse, or an application installed on any type of PC. Because the desktop is hosted on a powerful server that handles all the processing for the desktop, the thin client has very small resource requirements and does not need to be that powerful this is good for saving money we have strong performance of systems and cost of the system that we provide for people all very low . The only data that is sent back and forth between the thin client and the hosted server are video, keyboard/mouse inputs and peripheral connections (USB drives/printers).
- 6. Vmware View VMware View leverages vSphere as the virtual desktop host platform; in other words, user desktops are virtual machines running on ESX/ESXi hosts. They can take full advantage of all the features built into vSphere like VMotion, snapshots, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and more. To recap, VMware View virtual desktops run on a thin client that uses either a RDP or PCoIP protocol to connect to a virtual machine (View Desktop) running on an ESX/ESXi host. There, are, however, additional components used to manage the connection, provisioning, authentication and applications. Then we can run any kind of operating systems on our thin clients : win 7, win xp , linux , mac os
- 7. Just see what users see Step 1 : thin client boot up as normal
- 8. Just see what users see Step 2 : user puts username and password:
- 9. Just see what users see Step 3: we have our Os on low cost hardware :D