I’ve had another discussion with people passionate about memory overcommitting for virtual desktops. My stance is it can be dangerous if you take it too far. Unfortunately, many reports I see talking about the value of memory overcommit take it too far. So where is just far enough? Let’s go through an example (I’ve generalized [...]
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Had a brief discussion on twitter the other day where people (@simoncrosby, @joeshonk, @RichCrusco) were saying that we only need to focus on delivering applications and NOT a Windows 7 desktop. I completely disagree. In fact, we should be treating the desktop interface as an application. Of course the desktop-haters immediately came out saying “No, [...]
When working on desktop transformation designs, many start with the VDI (personal) model. I tend to go for the RDS (Shared) model. There are many reasons why, but mainly it is because Scalability: Most agree that a shared desktop environment achieves better scalability than personal desktop environments. Storage: Due to the shared operating system, the [...]
When starting to transform a desktop, many people get stuck at one of the first decisions: What type of virtual desktop should I implement? (VDI, RDS, Local VM, etc) There are so many options for so many use cases that we are stuck analyzing our users until we confuse ourselves even more. The problem is [...]
XenApp is The First Step.
Posted: November 4, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: TechTalk, XenApp, xendesktop
I’ve heard many people talk about how to start their desktop transformation projects when they are looking at 5000 desktops. How do you even begin? The number of desktops, users and applications is so overwhelming many can’t even figure out how to begin. The desktop environment is so vast that making any change looks impossible. [...]
