1. July 2008 by admin.

Interesting dilemma…

I have high profile client that has a unique VDI implementation that we did last year. At the time Leostream was initially selected as the Broker of choice but during the Design phase it was decided that we needed no broker at all. Part of the specifcations was to have the Thin Client boot directly to a specific VDI instance with no portal (again a very unique environment)  So if you sit at seat 10 you get VDI instance 10, no matter what.

Eventually we modified the local devices to auto launch an RDP instance at startup to the specific VDI instance.

The Problem: Video sucks with RDP

At the time RDP was the only choice and we found a 3-5 second delay between audio/video (similar watching an old Godzilla movie)

The Solution: XenDEsktop

In our Solutions Center we setup both VDM 2.0 and Xendesktop for a bake off. Regardless of pools, and fetures the only requirement was to get video to wok better.

It DID.

Summary: if you need better video performance ICA still wins, hands down

See for yourself:

VDI with Citrix XenDesktop vs. VDI with VMWare VDM (you tube)

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1. July 2008 by admin.

“Virtualization Power Panel” to Present Top Virtualization Executives Live on SYS-CON.TV — VMware CTO Steve Herrod, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, and Allen Stewart, Group Manager of Windows Virtualization at Microsoft are among the top industry executives joining Jeremy Geelan in the famous 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV ‘Virtualization Power Panel’ to be recorded on the eve of SYS-CON’s 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City.

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