Ok, so I’ll explain my personal thoughts on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – aka VDI. Some of this comes in light of Brian Madden’s recent article on VMware’s View product and the future of their hypervisor. However, even before that article was posted by Brian, I made similar comments during the VMware Communities Podcast over a month ago. What I said was that VMware had no business being in the desktop and application delivery workspace and that they should focus on what they do best, hypervisors and VM management. I got some flack for the comment with statements like “Why shouldn’t VMware be allowed to expand their business”…”you’re just a legacy Citrix guy”…”I feel bad for Terminal Server people. They work extremely hard to deliver a desktop to users that they end up hating” Well, here is the truth, users don’t like VDI either!….at the moment.
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July 18, 2009
June 02, 2009
In my neverending quest to run a decent ESX lab at home I’ve been messing around with some storage options on the cheap. Currently I use my iMac to serve up NFS storage to my ESX and ESXi hosts at home. This works fine but I wanted something a little, well…better!
