Thanks for the reply Matt, I know OS Streaming is thick client computing, my problem is to find the right existing category in which I could classify OS Streaming, sure "storage virtualization" is technically right to explain how it works, but from a marketing point of view does os streaming match VDI like presented by Citrix as: "low-cost way for customers to get started with desktop virtualization by leveraging existing PC resources and keeping datacenter overhead to a minimum" http://flexcast.citrix.com/technology/streamedvhd.html
I also talked about different levels of virtualization to compare full virtualisation like a VM to partial virtualization like a virtual HDD...just trying to sort out the marketing mess :-) before I start talking about the technical part to explain how it works. I'm I wrong ? Is it the right approach ? Thanks ! TheMadOne. Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:21:43 +0000 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gPXE] Can gPXE's network booting be classified as a VDI solution ? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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
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