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When it comes to Thin Client computing there are several questions that typically come up.  The big one is usually “What about video performance?”.   Video performance was typically subpar or “choppy”, how choppy usually depending on what protocol (ICA or RDP) you were using.  WYSE responded with it TCX Multimedia Redirection software which significantly improved [...]

We’re seeing a major rise in interest for VMware View and VDI in general.  We all joked last year that everyone was talking about it and expected people to really start doing it in ‘09 and boy were we right.  Big, medium, and small organizations are looking very heavily in to virtualizing desktops.  Is it [...]

As VDI is used more and more across the enterprise, the use of thin clients becomes an obvious choice when it comes time to replace client hardware.  Some of the advantages to going the thin client route are:
-          Cost – Thin clients are usually half the cost or less of a standard PC.  Prices can [...]

VMware View 3 Multimedia Performance
Implementing a VDI infrastructure in your environment can have lots of advantages including simplified management and lower hardware costs.  This is attractive to most companies but one concern that almost always comes up is that of performance, in particular multimedia performance.  How well will video and other multimedia files perform over [...]

Interesting move by VMware to head-off some competition in the open source arena.  Yesterday they released an open source client to access virtual machines such as remote desktops.   It supports VDM 2.0, 2.1, and the new View 3.0.  The source is released under the LGPL (Lesser General Public License) which is not as restrictive as [...]

After my last blog entry regarding Microsoft VECD licensing it appears I was still confused.  Here is the way VECD licensing works (really this time).
 
 
 
 

The Clients:
-          Licensing must be purchased through the Microsoft Open Value Program which is a 3yr subscription
-          For desktop/laptop Clients the OS must be upgraded to Software Assurance licensing for Vista
o   [...]

Understanding Microsoft Licensing for VDI Environments (i.e. VECD)
When it comes to the topic of virtualization, VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) has been one of the fastest growing areas.  The ability to virtualize your desktops and then manage and store those images back in the datacenter offers many advantages over standard thick-client computing.  By creating one “golden [...]

Recently Chad Sakac wrote an article on using some PowerShell scripts to quickly deploy VDI replicas.  As always, it’s a very good article but I wanted to expound a bit on what he has written and provide more instruction on setup and use.  I have had the opportunity to use and demo these scripts lately [...]