Easiest way to get into virtualized desktops

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I was wondering what the easiest (and cheapest) way is to get into virtualized desktops. I use Vsphere all the time but would like to get into learning about the other end and learning virtualized desktop environments.

Any help would be great.
 
Yeah I gotta admit VMWare view is definitely a leader.. There is vdi in a box but I always thought their premise isn't good..
 
Just download the trials for Connection Server and Composer, mess around with making pools and all of that stuff. From there you can put the view client on any machine and simulate as if you were coming through a thin client or whatever the desired device was. It's easy since you already have a vCenter in place, throw your composer DB on the same server and you're off and testing in and hour or two.
 
what kind of back end would you need for say 20 stations which mainly use web apps?
 
Jason, have you seen CBRC in action yet? Not being facetious as I haven't touched View since 4.6 but it sounds like a lot of those bootstorm issues may be mitigated now.
 
If you use XenDesktop you can do local caching which takes a lot of load off your SAN. Remember, Full VDI is very taxing on IOPS so you need fast storage, and it gets expensive.

The other option is to use local storage and replicate it to a second box for N+1 failover,
 
Must agree with k1pp3r.. IOPs is where you get slammed. If this is for a fairly large prod environment. I would recommend looking at one of total SSD storage systems like I saw at VMWorld.. They were pulling well over 200k IOPs with a 5 year warrenty on the drives(samsung top tier SSDs) and they were about 250k.. I was quiet amazed by them.. They had amazing dedup abilities to..
 
k1pp3r said:
If you use XenDesktop you can do local caching which takes a lot of load off your SAN. Remember, Full VDI is very taxing on IOPS so you need fast storage, and it gets expensive.
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Same equivalent technology that CRBC is for View.
 
VDI in a box is really easy to setup and use. It runs on Vmware, Hyper-V and Xen. It is very easy to configure and does not need shared storage. The great thing is the citrix receiver runs on practically every os and mobile device so BYOD is easy if you want that option.
 
Go with XenDesktop or VDI in a box. Great range of receivers for different devices and OSes, the protocol is still the most efficient for bandwidth, and it is dead simple to setup.
 
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