Hi there - is it possible to do the following ?
Run a client hosted VDI environment where the desktop shall run locally on existing desktop hardware
Stream the OS to the client on network connection (OS provisioning). Ideally this would only be the delta of any changes not the whole lot each time (i.e. the client stores an OS file somewhere much like say a Sun VirtualBoxVDI file )
Stream applications on top of that OS via ThinApp or similar
Allow the client to work offline (i.e. for laptops)
Does these functions exist now with the current VMWare View product offering? Is this good practice or should we be looking at a better way to do this? What issues would we face (security, network bursts at 9am etc?). We are thinking of using existing desktops as we have an investment there and dont want to come up against the performance issues of remote protocols, hardware support etc. Its ideally to allow us to manage gold builds of desktops (OS's+ applications) within the DC (NetApp) and stream these down to desktops to reduce the management overhead we have now. Long term when client hypervisors mature enough we could see migrating this setup there - that is allowing the desktop to process but running the config out of the DC
All thoughts appreciated