No, not in the classic sense. SAN booting a diskless workstation, running
on workstation hardware is technically a thick client, because it is more
or less married to one specific piece of hardware. However, since you have
storage consolidation, you could call it virtualized storage. It's not
quite the same thing, but the management and backup used for SAN for
servers can be used for Workstations...technologies such as SAN Block Level
Replication (site-to-site sync) and block level de-duplication can save on
storage costs. Remember for a moment that SAN storage tends to be
dramatically more expensive than local workstation storage, but that
doesn't mean it that SAN can't be cost effective if it is well-managed.
Some of the advantages of SAN booting are near-instant access and
replication of OS images of all kinds.
Best,
Matt
On Sep 2, 2010 6:11pm, The Mad One <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello to everyone,
I'm working on my ACS thesis & I'm stuck on how to classify gPXE's
network booting in the way it is used by a solution like DRBL (Diskless
Remote Boot in Linux).
I know it's a sort of "OS streaming" solution, but can OS streaming be
classified as a VDI solution ?
[because in some manner it is virtualizing the hard drive of the desktop
computer, but the OS is running on bare metal (on that desktop computer)
not in a VM]
VDI= Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Please, help me solve this dilemma.
Thanks in advance,
TheMadOne.
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