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Have you put a solution in place, started testing, or started planning for virtual desktops?
After replacing my piles of physical boxes hosting an OS collection in one chassis, it would have been hard to live without VMs again. Having since been spoiled by running Windows in a VM for any win32 only and using other's for developing server configurations, I don't think I could live without it now.
I just did a major hardware upgrade and the software install went; OS&MinUserSpace -> VM Server -> Existing VMs -> RemainingUserSpace -> Additional VMs. The gaming boot partition didn't get setup until weeks after the primary workspace and guests.
(Edit, having reread the article title):
Virtual desktops are the same way. I feel confined in Windows with only one crowded desktop. I only use a humble four desktop split but I've gotten used too the four topical groupings; internet, system and monitoring, VM related, Eterms (four always open and usually in use).
I just did a major hardware upgrade and the software install went; OS&MinUserSpace -> VM Server -> Existing VMs -> RemainingUserSpace -> Additional VMs. The gaming boot partition didn't get setup until weeks after the primary workspace and guests.
(Edit, having reread the article title):
Virtual desktops are the same way. I feel confined in Windows with only one crowded desktop. I only use a humble four desktop split but I've gotten used too the four topical groupings; internet, system and monitoring, VM related, Eterms (four always open and usually in use).
I see virtual desktops as a must in the near future, whether from a security or ease of upkeep standpoint. I'm used to a different environment, hence my research into desktop on a stick technology. MoJoPac is one approach that may get traction in this area. I can carry my whole desktop on a flash drive. MoJoPac describes it better:
"With MojoPac, an enterprise can encapsulate an entire desktop software environment including applications, data, settings, and security policies and then run the environment on any personal computer. An unmanaged desktop is instantly transformed into a secure corporate environment, isolated from the host system. The enterprise can also enforce security policies within the environment and prevent actions such as printing, writing to optical or USB drives, or copying from the clipboard. This ability to control the copying of corporate data off the endpoint greatly improves the company's ability to control desktop data leakage.
As an added measure of security, MojoPac can also scan the host before booting to detect the presence of endpoint security applications such as antivirus, antispyware, antipshishing, and firewalls. If the endpoint does not meet the minimum corporate security requirements for its computing environment, MojoPac can abort execution and warn the end user. This insures that MojoPac virtual desktop will operate on an acceptable host machine.
Finally, because the entire MojoPac image (not only data, but applications and settings) is easily encrypted and backed up, MojoPac is safer and easier to recover in case of loss or theft. This enables a much quicker, seamless, and more transparent recovery of the user's environment when compared to the procedure to recover a typical laptop."
Its not quite there yet, but an interesting alternative, especially for those that travel.
"With MojoPac, an enterprise can encapsulate an entire desktop software environment including applications, data, settings, and security policies and then run the environment on any personal computer. An unmanaged desktop is instantly transformed into a secure corporate environment, isolated from the host system. The enterprise can also enforce security policies within the environment and prevent actions such as printing, writing to optical or USB drives, or copying from the clipboard. This ability to control the copying of corporate data off the endpoint greatly improves the company's ability to control desktop data leakage.
As an added measure of security, MojoPac can also scan the host before booting to detect the presence of endpoint security applications such as antivirus, antispyware, antipshishing, and firewalls. If the endpoint does not meet the minimum corporate security requirements for its computing environment, MojoPac can abort execution and warn the end user. This insures that MojoPac virtual desktop will operate on an acceptable host machine.
Finally, because the entire MojoPac image (not only data, but applications and settings) is easily encrypted and backed up, MojoPac is safer and easier to recover in case of loss or theft. This enables a much quicker, seamless, and more transparent recovery of the user's environment when compared to the procedure to recover a typical laptop."
Its not quite there yet, but an interesting alternative, especially for those that travel.
Hey, Andy, did you intend to put links in to the three articles you cited?
We're looking at virtual desktops, but that's as far as we've gotten.
We're looking at virtual desktops, but that's as far as we've gotten.
I've thought about Virtual Desktops as well. Most of my users are split between laptops and desktops, and with a thin client setup, my laptop users would be out in the cold.
What I'm waiting on is an ESX-type solution. I could install the ESX OS on the laptops, then give the user a generic OS image on CD or flash drive to boot into.
There would be security implications, of course, and the images would have to be authenticated somehow, but I think it could be done.
What I'm waiting on is an ESX-type solution. I could install the ESX OS on the laptops, then give the user a generic OS image on CD or flash drive to boot into.
There would be security implications, of course, and the images would have to be authenticated somehow, but I think it could be done.
I'm issued a workstation and a notebook. I want to have the notebook desktop displayed as a "windows application" on the workstaion; this shares one keboard between the two, keeps Outlook in one location and enables better tandem use of both machines.
Where I already work with multiple shared desktops, it's a great.
Where I already work with multiple shared desktops, it's a great.
Have you considered using Synergy?
I use it daily, and I've passed it on to quite a few people who
really like it.
I use it daily, and I've passed it on to quite a few people who
really like it.
It looks like a remote desktop a-la-VNC. I'll have to take a look at it though. I may have a use for it already.
I am administering a terminal server environment now but I am looking into desktop virtualization.
With each technology (xe, vmware, ...) how many virtual desktops per server cpu/ram?
What about real world administering of virtual deskops? (ie: what is involved with having a gold copy and pushing changes out to them)
What hidden costs are there to this?
Thanks
With each technology (xe, vmware, ...) how many virtual desktops per server cpu/ram?
What about real world administering of virtual deskops? (ie: what is involved with having a gold copy and pushing changes out to them)
What hidden costs are there to this?
Thanks
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