What is Desktop Virtualization and VDI?

In this lesson from our free Intro to Desktop Virtualization course entitled, "What is Desktop Virtualization and VDI," vExpert and Pluralsight Instructor David Davis defines virtualization, desktop virtualization, and VDI, and walks you through the different types.

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[thierry.lavallee]

Great, well explained. Thanks for keeping the quick pace and squeezing all this info in 20 mins.

[RoyD]

Great and clear introduction to VDI! Very well done!

[tohaveortobe]

Great video on Visualization in general. Very well put!

[kgravikumar]

Nice. Would be nicer if you could share some more information on how CAD implementation on the VDI has not worked well.

[AbunaiDesuYo]

Actually, vSphere is the product family that contains both VMware ESXi...which is the hypervisor...and the VMware vCenter Server...which is the management software.

[ttts]

that was brilliant introduction, thanks heaps!!

[bonnypaul]

Thanks, this was well explained and well presented.

[phamhiepst]

just for noting
17:00 advantages and limitations of VDI

[chinmingleong]

hey there, I'm new to the VDI. Can please show me how to configure the VDI by using VMware tools? I'm currently using the VMware Workstation 12, what else do I need to install to complete this VDI? Thank you so so much :)

[chadsexinton]

how to you setup the server to do this? I cant find any videos on how to do that.

[Cndin]

hi amazing tutorial !! good job ! i hope you do a lot more !!

so i have Vm workstation v9 running and 1 server with esxi and win8 OS on it .. so if i get View client i can just remotly connect to that desktop from any thin client ?

[exengineer]

Agree, too, that it is incorrect to refer to the hypervisor as vSphere. ESXi is more appropriate.

[iamagi]

You will need to trough a connection broker. The dektops that the broker direkts you to must have been created by the system you use, Citrix delivery console or vmware view so that the desktops are known by the broker.
This way you get a centralised control panel where you manage the desktops and you can utilise technologies like linked clones where 5000 copes of a windows 7 installation does not take up much more space on the storage than one instance of windows 7

[dapras]

holy crap imagine if my company converted over to VMware with a thin client on each desk...I would be out of a job lol

[hamzabeniffou]

Thanks a lot for this video ;)
If you have a video about Horizon View on how it works, please feel free to shut up

[papatizi]

you claim couple of times on this video that Vsphere is hypervisor, but not ! its management software and the hypervisior is Esxi....

[iamagi]

some of this was apparently covered a few seconds after i stopped my pause

[chigozieokorie]

You have very good videos and training but talk too fast, it will be nice if you slow it down a bit :)

[rathishag]

11 years passed. Still its not widely implemented.

[exengineer]

Good info, but yes, the speaker talks WAY TOO FAST! It was hard to keep up and appreciate what he was saying. After a few minutes, I literally got a headache trying to absorb all the information. I just turned it off. Please, SLOW DOWN. This isn't an auction.