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Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By : Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic
Book Image

Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By: Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Designing Hyper-V Solutions
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Here, we are concluding the final chapter of the book. In this chapter, we covered a different aspect of Hyper-V by taking it beyond server consolidation, and depicting how feasible it can be to deliver a client-side solution—Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

At the onset, we considered the various options that are available under desktop virtualization from Microsoft, including the old and reliable session desktops from the terminal server era, and the fairly new kid on the block virtual desktops. Virtual desktops has two sub-offerings: namely pooled and personal desktop collections.

Pooled desktops are a pool of virtual machines as a resource and when a user connects to the collection, he/she gets a VM dynamically assigned to them. The changes made to the VM are purged on the logoff and the VM is returned back to the pool. Hence, no personalization is saved. Ideal means maintaining a user-state personalization for remote user profiles and Folder Redirection. However, with...