| A Current State of VDI |
| Monday, 26 November 2007 by Michel Roth | |||
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Al does a valid point in that Citrix, at the moment, seems to have a unique proposition to be able to deliver an (almost) end-to-end VDI solution. 2008 will be important to see whether Citrix will be able to seize that opportunity because if they don't in 2009 there will probably be to many other decent products to take a piece of the pie. Here are some things that I think will be important in this area (in no particular order and not an exhaustive list). XenServer Acceptance For Citrix it think (amongst other things) it will depend on the ratio of acceptance of XenServer. XenServer needs to be enterprise ready. Like it or not, people are going to compare it to the standard which is ESX. If ESX makes XenServer look like PlayDo, then Citrix might have a problem. If you want to see for yourself what XenServer looks like today, there's this "mini-training" (web cast) available for free viewing that takes your through XenServer. Provisioning Server The effect of Provisioning Server (fka Ardence). One of the strong suits of the proposed Citrix end-to-end VDI solution is that they kind of claim to take away one of the drawbacks of VDI: disk space. By streaming the OS in stead of storing it on disk this could seriously save storage. It also has some distinct disadvantages. Time will tell if people will go for it. Integration It's a simple as that. Citrix has been on more of a shopping spree than Paris Hilton on steroids, so now they have a very big challenge bringing all these acquisitions to bare to form a end-to-end VDI solution that actually works as a single product (suite). I must say the "two-management-consoles" approach of the last two Presentation Server versions haven't really gotten my hopes up. Al's article on VDI deals with the following subjects: • What is VDI? • What actually makes up a VDI solution? • What's all the hype?What is the current state of VDI? • Why are Citrix and VMware the leaders for VDI? • What are the Pros and Cons of a Pure Citrix VDI Deployment? • What are the Pros and Cons of a Pure VMware VDI Deployment? • Which solution VDI is best? • XenServer and ESX Compared Read Al's article here.
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