Comments on: VMware VDI http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve Richards http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/comment-page-1/#comment-1018 Steve Richards Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:24:31 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/#comment-1018 @Paul, Vmware have an experimental release of a capability that allows you to replicate a server hosted VM to the client VM and replicate changes back. It's not the same as Citrix provisioning server which is a streaming solution and can stream to physical and virtual clients and servers. ThinApp doesn't have the ability to stream to a VM and then be available for offline use. It does however "stream" from a file server to a VM online. Steve @Paul, Vmware have an experimental release of a capability that allows you to replicate a server hosted VM to the client VM and replicate changes back. It’s not the same as Citrix provisioning server which is a streaming solution and can stream to physical and virtual clients and servers. ThinApp doesn’t have the ability to stream to a VM and then be available for offline use. It does however “stream” from a file server to a VM online. Steve

]]> By: Paul http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 Paul Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:55:07 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/#comment-1017 Does VMWare view allow you to stream the OS now? i.e. can you stream the OS and then use Thinstall/ThinApp to overlay applications? Does VMWare view allow you to stream the OS now? i.e. can you stream the OS and then use Thinstall/ThinApp to overlay applications?

]]> By: Steve Richards http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Steve Richards Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:17:48 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/#comment-930 @graham, I agree. Thats why I prefer the pattern I described, rather than have only one Personal Virtual PC that moves between client and server, you just stream your personality into a standard PC image and then save personality modifications back to the personality server (transparently). That way no matter whether you are working on client or server or both at the same time your personaility is always sourced from a single location. As to why you might want something other than the client hosted virtual desktop, there are a few examples: - You need to be closer to the data for performance - You need a faster PC, more CPU or memory - Your device client fails - You don't have your client PC with you @graham, I agree. Thats why I prefer the pattern I described, rather than have only one Personal Virtual PC that moves between client and server, you just stream your personality into a standard PC image and then save personality modifications back to the personality server (transparently). That way no matter whether you are working on client or server or both at the same time your personaility is always sourced from a single location.

As to why you might want something other than the client hosted virtual desktop, there are a few examples:

- You need to be closer to the data for performance
- You need a faster PC, more CPU or memory
- Your device client fails
- You don’t have your client PC with you

]]> By: Graham Chastney http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/comment-page-1/#comment-929 Graham Chastney Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:25:32 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/#comment-929 The biggest challenge I see to any form of "offline" VDI that works in a check-in/check-out scenario is the question of what makes you check anything back in. Why would you bother? You already have everything you need? The biggest challenge I see to any form of “offline” VDI that works in a check-in/check-out scenario is the question of what makes you check anything back in. Why would you bother? You already have everything you need?

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