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Persistent VDI desktops: It’s not about how the desktop is built
by Ron Oglesby 2 weeks ago (Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:00 AM) 1 comment, 106 views

One of the common irks I have in talking to customers is that companies have used the words “persistent” and “non-persistent” to mean many different things. Often to confuse the customer or make it seem like they have something when they actually don’t (for example, “persistent” Linked Clone VMs from VMware).

This for me is an issue because persistence is about the user experience and...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged persistent virtual desktop
Meet Jerry: Storage Optimization for VDI
by Andrew Nadeau on Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:00 AM 0 comments, 496 views

Need persistent VDI but thick-provisioned virtual desktops require too much storage?

Meet Jerry.

Most of Jerry's users require persistent virtual desktops. However, Jerry quickly found that thick-provisioning his desktops would require 40-50 GB per VM and still not solve many of his desktop management challenges. So, how did Jerry deploy easy-to-manage persistent virtual desktops on 70% less storage...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged meet jerry, persistent virtual desktop, storage optimization
Meet Jerry: Persistent VDI with Storage Savings of Linked Clones
by Andrew Nadeau on Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM 0 comments, 657 views

Using VMware Linked Clones, but your end users need to customize their desktops?

Meet Jerry.

Jerry rolled out virtual desktops using VMware Linked Clones, only to have his end users rebel when their desktops customizations vanished. See what Jerry did to give his users truly persistent desktops on the same small storage footprint as Linked Clones, and make his VMware View project a success.

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged linked clones, meet jerry, persistent virtual desktop
Out on a Limb with Virtual Desktops – What’s in it for You?
by Andrew Nadeau on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:49 PM 0 comments, 862 views

This blog post was also published on VMware's End User Computing Blog.

Guest Blog Post (Part 2 of a 3 part series)
By Raechelle Clemmons, CIO, Menlo College

There’s no question that virtual desktops can deliver a lot of advantages to those in charge of managing IT on campus. We’re certainly seeing our share of value here at Menlo College, where we’re reducing the operational costs of desktop...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged menlo college, persistent virtual desktop, raechelle clemmons, vdi in education
Lock it down and throw away the key!
by Chris Midgley on Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:01 PM 0 comments, 1640 views

One of the cool capabilities of Unidesk is how we persist any and all changes made to a desktop, while simultaneously providing single image management of apps and the OS.  The value here is obvious when your desktop use case requires the ability for users to install their own applications, add-ins, drivers, etc.  That's clearly something that non-persistent VDI can't do. 

But just...

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Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged application virtualization, non-persistent, non-persistent desktop, persistent, persistent virtual desktop
VDI Right on the Money
by Andrew Nadeau on Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:00 PM 0 comments, 1593 views

This blog post was also published on VMware's End User Computing Blog.

Guest Blog Post (Part 1 of a 3 part series)
By Raechelle Clemmons, CIO, Menlo College

“So how much did your VDI implementation cost, anyway?”

A lot of people mumble incoherently and look at the floor when asked this basic question. Not us. Here at Menlo College we are well into the rollout of our new virtual desktops...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged menlo college, non-persistent desktop, persistent virtual desktop, raechelle clemmons, vdi in education, vmware view
Customer perspective: why understanding use cases is so important in VDI
by Tom Rose on Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM 0 comments, 3527 views

Raechelle Clemmons, CIO at Unidesk customer Menlo College, just published a new blog titled "Virtual Desktops: Persistent, Non-Persistent, or…Both?" where she did a great job explaining why an analysis of use cases should be Step #1 in VDI design.

Menlo College is using the combination of VMware View and Unidesk to deploy a mix of persistent desktops (desktops that keep all user customizations through...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customer, education, non-persistent desktop, persistent virtual desktop, vdi use cases, vmware view
VDI implementation learnings: the need for personalization goes beyond profiles
by Ron Oglesby on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:01 AM 5 comments, 2423 views

I've been spending the last few weeks at customer sites helping our partners implement Unidesk. It's good to be in the field again participating in production VDI deployments. No surprise I end up getting involved in more than just Unidesk design - network, storage, thin clients, brokers, hypervisors, you name it. But that's for another blog.

What I'm finding is that a key to successful virtual desktop...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged persistent personalization, persistent virtual desktop, user personalization
For profile management, RTO is goodness, but users need more
by Ron Oglesby on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:12 PM 0 comments, 2651 views

One of the things VMware View was often knocked for when it first came out was how it handled Windows profiles. Citrix acquired Sepago a few years ago and has been busy integrating it into Citrix Delivery Center to deal with profile management issues, whereas VMware has had to rely on standard Microsoft roaming profiles or some third party tool. With its acquisition of RTO's tools, VMware can now ...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged persistent personalization, persistent virtual desktop, profile management, rto software, vmware
Memory is Cheap, DISK IS EXPENSIVE! When you’re a Virtual Desktop…
by Ron Oglesby on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:41 AM 8 comments, 2787 views

There are many truths in computing. So many that we don’t even think about them as “truths”, they’re just there all the time, and we just teach new IT folks to accept them. But every now and then something throws one of our truths under the bus.

VDI has tossed the truth of “Disk is Cheap, Memory is Expensive” under the bus for persistent desktops.

Obviously if you compare GB to GB, disk ...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged local disk for vdi, persistent virtual desktop, VDI local storage
Gartner On How to Make Desktop Virtualization More Personal
by Tom Rose on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM 3 comments, 1827 views

Gartner just issued a research note explaining how new approaches to persistent personalization will enable enterprises to implement hosted virtual desktops (HVD/VDI) for a much broader population of workers. Unidesk is listed as one of the promising new vendors that will make this possible.

The note - Why, How and When to Personalize Hosted Virtual Desktops - explains how techniques such as pooled...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged persistent virtual desktop, personalize virtual desktops
What Does Persistent Desktop Personalization Mean to You?
by Chris Midgley on Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:41 PM 0 comments, 2646 views

There's a lot of buzz in the desktop virtualization world around “Persistent Personalization.” But really, what is it? Clearly nobody wants to lose their work when their desktops are upgraded or patched, or when they need to switch machines (say, thin terminal to notebook). I think we can agree that if we could have our personalization isolated and preserved even when our desktops change...

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Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged persistent personalization, persistent virtual desktop