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![]() Linked Clone's let me tier out the base image and the linked clone delta ata to fast disk or SSD (and single instance it so my array cache can just store a single copy of the most common base files). This along with some cache management tricks lets me run a school district's VDI images off of 15 disks. (which Citrix and VMware have integrated) you stub the profile data and only need to load it on an ad hoc basis so you don't have massive login storms from the full profile rolling into the image. The main reason I need profile virtualization is less about the OSless abstraction piece and more about the storage part. I look at it more from a performance/cost from the storage side where the features come to play. Sorry to sound like a shameless plug, but linked clones & profile virtualization are not typically as good as all that.and typically don't all come from the same product. And as a bonus, it's dead-simple administration, and rollback of problematic apps/os patches, ect. It also handles personalization layering, and storage reduction, all in one solution. Granted, Unidesk is more of an add-on to someone else's vdi, but a View/Unidesk, or Panologic/Unidesk solution is the simplest I've seen to get clean vdi managment from all angles, single os images, single app images, app layers that work with virtually any app (app-virt of all types have more limitations). Obviously being able to layer an app using Unitrends is a bit nicer :) I think we have like 5 base image's that we have pools off of, and use Thinapp for one off applications that don't justify a full base image. If you want to take a look at it, shoot me a PM I can get you setup on our demo environment. The interface feels almost overly simplified at times compared to the ridiculous amount of options that vSphere gives you for server administration. VMware's VDI management View is really easy. I've seen it negate the need for large Citrix farms. Unitrends is a lot more elegant solution though if you have groups of 8 people need this app, and 4 need this one, and this AD groups needs this app etc. or you have crazy amounts of application variety in your images. My favorite thing with Unitrends was the full profile abstraction (I've heard of people getting profiles to roam cleanly with all settings translated between XP and Windows 7 well). I really don't think I could manage a district wide deployment strictly using vmware without some management. I'm pretty much a one man shop so I need all the simplicity I can get. I'm currently looking at Unidesk to help with the vmware management. Trying to save money where we can until we have to replace units with thin clients. Thin clients, re-purposing pcs, all of the above. We're not looking at students connecting from home at this moment but that has come up in conversations so I'm sure it'll be in the works also. ![]() Are you wanting to allow students to connect to desktops from home also?Īre you wanting to use Thin clients, or re-purpose existing machines? I'd say you'd likely be fine with VMware but for Microsoft might run into issues if your students are video heavy.Ĭouple questions. With Microsoft's VDI using RemoteFX for video I've pushed over 90Mbps to a single thin client, so if you want to go the Microsoft direction I will warn you it is both CPU and Network aggressive when your pushing rich video over the network (while View can look nice with just 3Mbps going to my iPad). To be honest with you looking at traffic utilization you can get away with 100Mbps to the access layer. We run an entire district using multi-gigabit backbone's with gigabit on the access layer. I have experience with VMware View and school districts and can speak to a certain degree on it. We're looking primarily at Hyper-v and Vmware. My question is is that 100mb from switch to endpoint going to cause problems with VDI. For instance, our backbone is gigabit but several buildings still have 10/100 switches w/ gigabit to backbone and regular cat5 to the endpoint. We are a K-12 school so some of our infastructure is a little old. We are currently looking into several VDI solutions and have a couple of questions regarding bandwidth.
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