[gPXE] Re : gPXE Digest, Vol 12, Issue 2

[The Mad One]

Thanks for the reply Matt,

I know OS Streaming is thick client computing, my problem is to find the right existing category in which I could classify OS Streaming, sure "storage virtualization" is technically right to explain how it works, but from a marketing point of view does os streaming match VDI like presented by Citrix as: "low-cost way for customers to get started with desktop virtualization by leveraging existing PC resources and keeping datacenter overhead to a minimum"
http://flexcast.citrix.com/technology/streamedvhd.html

I also talked about different levels of virtualization to compare full virtualisation like a VM to partial virtualization like a virtual HDD...just trying to sort out the marketing mess :-) before I start talking about the technical part to explain how it works.

I'm I wrong ? 
Is it the right approach ?

Thanks !
TheMadOne.


Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:21:43 +0000
From: mwhelton at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gPXE] Can gPXE's network booting be classified as a VDI
    solution ?
To: gpxe at etherboot.org
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No, not in the classic sense. SAN booting a diskless workstation, running  
on workstation hardware is technically a thick client, because it is more  
or less married to one specific piece of hardware.
 However, since you have  
storage consolidation, you could call it virtualized storage. It's not  
quite the same thing, but the management and backup used for SAN for  
servers can be used for Workstations...technologies such as SAN Block Level  
Replication (site-to-site sync) and block level de-duplication can save on  
storage costs. Remember for a moment that SAN storage tends to be  
dramatically more expensive than local workstation storage, but that  
doesn't mean it that SAN can't be cost effective if it is well-managed.  
Some of the advantages of SAN booting are near-instant access and  
replication of OS images of all kinds.

Best,

Matt




      
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