If you are a server person, a data center manager, you're probably not familiar with Windows Client licensing, although this is not new stuff. Using virtualization to host Windows Client is not as common as hosting Windows Server or Linux VMs. This scenario will be explained in more detail in Chapter 10, Implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, but, for now, what you need to know is that some companies use the data center processing power to host the users' OS. Instead of using high performance devices for users, they virtualize the Windows Client on the virtualization hosts of the data center and use this processing for the customer's applications. The users will access these VMs remotely from their devices. However, the licensing of Windows Client is different from Windows Server.

As the licensing for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has not changed much from Windows 7 to Windows 8 and 8.1, we will cover the concepts of VDI for Windows 8 and...