Michel Roth, a Terminal Server MVP, has written an article about new VDI features in Windows Server 2008 R2.
Have to say, there’s a lot to it (meaning complexity -wise) but Michel’s article nicely overviews all the necessary bits and pieces (RD Connection Broker, RD Session Host, RD Web Access and RD Virtualization Host) you need to be familiar with.
So, if Microsoft’s take on VDI is of interest, check the article out!
Quest just recently released new 6.2 version upgrade to their vWorkspace product suite.
New version adds some more rapid deployment of VDI instances, but only when using VMware as virtualization platform and NetApp FlexClone as a storage. Hopefully similiar features will start appearing in Hyper-V’s side of the fence, which is still little bit lacking behind VMware in features being offered/supported through vWorkspace UI. Of course, this is most likely due to differences of underlying technologies, but hey! it would be nice to have e.g. sysprep options offered directly from the vWorkspace for Hyper-V/SCVMM as well..
Maybe more universally appliable enhancements in 6.2 releases are ones in EOP however. There is a new/rewritten graphics acceleration functionality that moved things from user- to kernel-mode and should also provide more higher-quality compression, which is of course very user subjective as things compressed with JPEG usually are. But should be better anyhow.
Also in the EOPs enhancements, there’s support for more oddball multi-monitor resolution/orientation configurations and some improvements on universal USB redirection. Which, IMHO, can never be “good enough” ;-)
The updated version is downloadable, as always, from the http://www.vworkspace.com/ website, after you have registered an account for yourself. Full features, but time-limited.
-Kalle
This is new becoming for the virtualisointi.fi, in more than one way.
In the first ever version, the site was available in more than one language. Then, after a while, when switching to dasBlog -engine, this capability was lost (for good reason) and now with Wordpress I decided to resurrect it again. So here we go, hopefully there’s going to be posts in both or one of the languages depending on the topic..
Oh, and speaking of virtualization which is kind of topic for this whole site: my new Wordpress engine is happily running on top of Linux VM running inside the Microsoft Hyper-V. Yes, it’s a second-class citizen in Hyper-V, but it’s working great thanks to kindly folks at microsoft.beta.windowsserver.hyper-v.linux -newsgroup providing pre-built CentOS VHDs.. If you’re interested in it, I belive that the Linux Integration Components -connection is available for all to join at Microsoft’s Connect -website.
-Kalle