All about application delivery

again and again customers are getting confused about licensing VDI based infrastrucutres. With vdi I mean virutal desktop infrastructures in general and I just want to look at the microsoft part of it. Every VDI solution needs Virtual Enterprise Centraliced Desktop (VECD) licenses. You may not just put your for example Windows XP license into the data center running virtualized on a server and using a thin client to access it, but you need to purchase a VECD license. There are two kinds of VECD licenses – one for customers with SA. The pay round about 23 $ per year (it is a rental license) and may then run 4 virtual instances on the same time – but you also need a valid license for your desktop operating system. Then there is also a VECD license for Clients, that have no license or no SA (Thin Clients or customers without SA). This license cost round about 110$ per year. The licenses are bound to a client device and may be changed to another device after 90 days of use or if the device breaks. So please calculate these cost in your VDI ROI! – and as I said – it is a yearly fee!

on our road show a customer asked me, if App-V can totally isolate the application from the operating system, so it cannot pollute th OS. I believe this is not possible because App-V only redirects files that were used during sequencing or were manually added to the virtual file system. So for example if C:\windows\SOMEAPP.INI was not created during sequencing it will later not be redirected into the bubble but the applciation tries to write to C:\Windows…
App-V is not designed to solve security problems, but if can help to mitigate them.

Thanks to Holger for showing me his blog and inspiring me to start also blogging http://blog.nafajaho.de…

This blog will cover all kind of allication delivery aspects regarding microsoft, citrix, vmware and so on….