VDI solutions. Microsoft, VMWare View, Citrix XenDesktop, etc?
NinjaBoy
Member Posts: 968
Hi All,
As the title says: VDI solutions. Microsoft, VMWare View, Citrix XenDesktop, etc?
About 6 years ago we had Citrix and to be honest, while it meet basic needs - anything above Office was shocking. Now a days, TS (and the newer VDI) has moved on quite a bit and (I believe) can meet our needs. Added to this I have to reduce our overall operating costs (this includes power, rolling replacements, vandalism, etc) as well as re-organise workloads (from fixing vandalised equipment and reimaging PC's to more proactive tasks).
Price wise the order for us would be: Microsoft, VMWare then Citrix. However while price does play a big factor into things, that's not the only thing we have to consider.
So my question for you guys/gals who have already gone thru this process are...
1. What did you end up going for?
2. How was it/how is it going?
3. How easy/hard was it to set up?
4. Any other info regarding this can you give?
Thanks
-Ken
As the title says: VDI solutions. Microsoft, VMWare View, Citrix XenDesktop, etc?
About 6 years ago we had Citrix and to be honest, while it meet basic needs - anything above Office was shocking. Now a days, TS (and the newer VDI) has moved on quite a bit and (I believe) can meet our needs. Added to this I have to reduce our overall operating costs (this includes power, rolling replacements, vandalism, etc) as well as re-organise workloads (from fixing vandalised equipment and reimaging PC's to more proactive tasks).
Price wise the order for us would be: Microsoft, VMWare then Citrix. However while price does play a big factor into things, that's not the only thing we have to consider.
So my question for you guys/gals who have already gone thru this process are...
1. What did you end up going for?
2. How was it/how is it going?
3. How easy/hard was it to set up?
4. Any other info regarding this can you give?
Thanks
-Ken
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MentholMoose Member Posts: 1,525 ■■■■■■■■□□This may be of use:
VDI Smackdown; Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft RemoteFX, Quest vWorkspace and VMware View
I did my own comparison in 2009 settled on XenDesktop, but the VDI space is moving very fast and things have changed since them.MentholMoose
MCSA 2003, LFCS, LFCE (expired), VCP6-DCV