![]() The text above the arrows in the screenshot below can be translated as “sorry, we don’t offer cloud computing technology at this time.” There is an easy way to find out if a service provider just slaps “cloud” on its products for marketing reasons or if real cloud technology comes into play. I admit that is quite debatable that a service that forces customers to pay an extra charge for third-party licenses can hardly be seen as a cloud service. This brings me straight to my main argument against VMware Horizon DaaS. In my opinion, this slight technical advantage is essentially nullified by the fact that you have to mess with Virtual Desktop Access (VDA) licenses (PDF). ![]() Since server-based computing has been around for quite a while, the likelihood that you will bump into an application that feels unhappy in a server environment is not that great. In that case, all you have to do is test these applications under Windows Server and you are done. Even if you need VDI because you run a non-Windows OS on your devices, you probably only have a few Windows applications that you want to run on your virtual desktops. In most scenarios, VDI is only used to provision a few important applications centrally for branch offices, partners, or customers. ![]() Only if you are really such a daredevil and intend to replace all your physical desktops with virtual desktops could this be a plus. In my view, this advantage of running a Windows client version instead of the server edition is not really that big. If I understand Brian correctly, this is the reason why he thinks that VMware “beat” Amazon. The list of guest operating systems is impressive in particular, the fact that you can also run a real Windows client, and not just a Windows Server, with the Desktop Experience is an advantage. However, considering that Amazon is using the same protocol, it is quite possible that Amazon will soon also support smartphones and HTML5 devices. Horizon DaaS supports more clients than Amazon WorkSpaces supports. Admins can use a single client to manage Horizon Workspace and Horizon DaaS VMs.įor more technical details, have a look at VMware Horizon DaaS FAQ (PDF).The virtual desktops can be persistent or non-persistent.The guest OS can be Windows XP, Windows 7 Enterprise, 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows Server with a client interface.On the client side, VMware supports zero clients, PCs, Macs, iPads, Android devices, smartphones, Amazon Kindle Fires, HTML5 browsers and Google Chromebooks. ![]() VMware Horizon uses the Teradici PCoIP desktop sharing protocol.A virtual machine has one CPU, 2GB of RAM, and 30GB of storage.VMware Horizon DaaS specsīefore I tell you why VMware Horizon DaaS doesn’t even play in the same league as Amazon WorkSpaces, let’s first summarize the main points about the product: Thus, the whole thing about the announcement is that VMware now competes with their partners by offering Horizon DaaS as an online service from their own datacenters. The desktop virtualization product was available as a service from VMware partners and as an on-premises solution that goes by the name Horizon Workspace. Horizon DaaS is based on Desktone’s desktop virtualization product, which VMware snatched up last year.
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