{"id":9012,"date":"2008-01-31T20:19:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2008-01-31T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"vmware-releases-virtual-desktop-manager-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9012","title":{"rendered":"VMware Releases Virtual Desktop Manager 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VMware has just released their new VDI solution<\/font><\/u><\/a>.\u00a0 VDI; what’s that?\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Virtual Desktop Infrstructure can be seen as an alternative to traditional server based computing (SBC)\u00a0such as Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server\/MetaFrame.\u00a0 The idea is that you use virtual machines running in the data center that run desktop operating systems.\u00a0 Users of those VM’s will access them using a protocol such as RDP or ICA via\u00a0an easily replacable\u00a0terminal device.\u00a0 It has some serious adminsitrative advantages.\u00a0 Anyone running SBC is aware of the driver issues, application silos, applicaitons that don’t like running ina\u00a0 shared environment, minor changes require projects, etc, not to mention the hell of managing user profiles or "flex profiles".\u00a0 VDI says "screw all that", let’s just move the user desktop to a central repository and run it in a similar data center, just with the admin and process execution model that we know that works and is responsive to business needs.\n<\/p>\n

The underlying technology is servers, SAN and a hypervisor virtualisation solution.\u00a0 VMware has ruled the roost here for some time.\u00a0 Microsoft aims to step on their toes with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.\u00a0 These products alone offer you a pretty traditional desktop experience for the user and for the administrators.\u00a0 Sysprep’ed virtual machines are cloned and software is deployed.\n<\/p>\n

You can build on top of this using advanced desktop management (even if they are VM’s) using something like SMS 2003 R2 or SCCM 2007, SoftGrid or whatever your favoured software deployment and desktop management solutions are.\n<\/p>\n

The big thing is linking users to their VM’s, provisioning those VM’s in the first place and providing VPN access to roaming users.\u00a0 How do you do it?\u00a0 Well, you can do it the old fashoined way with lots of technology strung together.\u00a0 It works.\u00a0 We’ve all seen that in the past.\u00a0 It’s better again to use a broker<\/em>.\u00a0 A VDI broker can provision VM’s as they are required.\u00a0 A user connects to the broker, a VM is deployed and the user is automatically connected to the VM.\u00a0 Sweet!\u00a0 It also can offer VPN connectivity, possibly via\u00a0HTTPS, similar to what you get from Citrix Access Gateway, a well accepted and strongly recommended remote access solution.\n<\/p>\n

VMware have released their own product, VDM2<\/font><\/u><\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0in this market.\u00a0 It will obviously garner a strong market share because of the name.\u00a0 Brian Madden had a quick look<\/font><\/u><\/a> at it and so-far, so-good.\u00a0 There’s a 60 day eval so that’s one product you’ll want to look at in a lab.\n<\/p>\n

You should also note that Provision Networks has a well recommended solution and that Citrix and Microsoft are also working on a solution to work on Hyper-V.\u00a0 The latter may include Ardence, a really clever desktop streaming solution, that could be used for VM deployment.\n<\/p>\n

Credit: Brian Madden<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VMware has just released their new VDI solution.\u00a0 VDI; what’s that?\u00a0 Virtual Desktop Infrstructure can be seen as an alternative to traditional server based computing (SBC)\u00a0such as Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server\/MetaFrame.\u00a0 The idea is that you use virtual machines running in the data center that run desktop operating systems.\u00a0 Users of those VM’s … Continue reading “VMware Releases Virtual Desktop Manager 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}