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        <title><![CDATA[VMotion!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For VMWare this has been the key for a lot of their DR, High Availability, etc.  It applies for dekstops as well.  If there is a failure to the host (server) the virtual desktop will 'move' to another host.  If it is an extreme failure, Virtual Center will notice that virtual desktops shut down and it will restart them on other hosts.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[damone@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:37:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[End User Connections]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[VMWare will have a connection broker soon.  There are also third party borkers out there.  Citrix has one that work, but we'll see what the future brings since they recently purchased XenSource.  RDP works or you can publish the desktop(s) through Citrix.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[damone@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:34:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Vmotion]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[for large scale implementations, you build up ESX based hardware clusters where all VMs reside and in case one hardware in the cluster fails, the VMS on that hardware are automatically moved to another node of the cluster. This is called Vmotion.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pranav.sharma@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:27:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happens when the hardware fails?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Do you end up with everyone on the farm going down? and how can you prevent it?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[benwaystudios@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:35:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thin Client PCs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Clients can simply connect to the virtualized environment via hardware thin clients such as those used by ClearCube.  The only environment where this would be hard to implement would be in workstation environments such as animation studios that need beefy workstations.  You would need a farm of darn-near super computers to give each artist access to the computing power they would get from a stand-alone PC.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:44:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The &quot;Drawbacks&quot; Are Really Just Considerations]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A company can save a considerable amount on hardware by virtualizing their desktops so these &quot;drawbacks&quot; are just things that should be considered when moving to a virtualized environment.  It can be a drawback if you think you can just do a 1 to 1 hardware match from desktop to server (i.e. &quot;Well, most desktops come with SATAII drives so I'll use SATAII in the server to save a few bucks&quot;).  Although you may save even more by skimping out on true server hardware, the savings from virtualizing desktops by itself should allow you to funnel some of the savings towards a beefier host server infrastructure (e.g. fibre channel SAN, high RPM SAS drives, etc).  Even after all of that, you should be sitting pretty cost-wise.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:30:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Connections]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You can use the methods mentiond before, though I wouldn't recommend VNC. These would be static and direct connections. A better route would be through a connection broker where users authenticate and will receive standard build from a pool that you define. Read more here: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/vmware/vdi-connect.html]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[morristl@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:21:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[End User Access - RDP]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[He can access via RDDP or by VNC]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pranav.sharma@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:00:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[End-User Access]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does the end-user actually access the virtual machine?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[andy.howell@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:15:48 -0700</pubDate>
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