The View From NCS Technologies

Although organizations have begun their leap to Virtualization and begin to embrace zero clients more and more, end users still have beefy workstations that they use on a day-to-day basis.

Final Entry Of A Multi-Part Series

POWER USERS

Over the past week, I have been discussing the various kinds of workers who are likely to be impacted by virtualization. Power Users, like the more senior Knowledge Workers discussed in the last blog, generally are tough challenges for virtualization. These are the folks that require the power of a desktop, the proprietary peripherals, and resource intensive software applications. 

Part 3 Of A Multi-Part Blog Series

As I mentioned in Parts 1 & 2 of this blog series, when a company expresses the intent to move toward virtualization, it is wise to ask them if they have a list of users and type of users that they intend to virtualize.

Part 2 Of A Multi-Part Blog Series

As I mentioned in Part 1 of this blog series, when a company expresses the intent to move toward virtualization, it is wise to ask them if they have a list of users and type of users that they intend to virtualize.

The questions quickly pop up, including what type of worker do you recommend we start with on the way to full virtualization? In the first blog l discussed the differences between a deployment with Persistent Desktops versus Non-Persistent Desktops. Today I'm here to talk about Linked Clones versus Full Clones

Multi-Part Blog Series

 Virtualization: The Many Types of Users

 In my experience, when a company expresses the intent to move toward virtualization, it is wise to ask them if they have a list of users and type of user that they intend to virtualize.

It seems that the minute that question leaves my mouth, a series of questions pop up, including what type of workers are there for VDI? Is there a type that shouldn’t be included or virtualized? What type of worker do you recommend we start with on the way to full virtualization?

One of the first questions customers ask me about when deploying VDI is what are the ports that need to be opened to access a Horizon View environment. It's here that I usually rattle off the ports like TCP/UDP 4172, 443, and 3389. I explain to my customers that if they want to avoid a black screen when trying to connect to a VDI session, these ports at a minimum need to be opened.