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Hi,<br />
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I currently have a large vSphere System where i VM a load of servers. <br />
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I now need to also provide about 30 (max) Windows XP desktops for people to develop and test on (they need to do it remotely).<br />
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Its not a big requirement so I was thinking of providing the 30 desktops as virtual hosts, I also have XenApp so I was thinking I could publish either RDP or use vmplayer on XenApp to access the virtualised desktops.<br />
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Whats the easiest and cheapest solution here. I don't want to get into XenDesktop or VDI or something, it seems complete overkill to me.<br />
<br />
Thanks
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Hi,

I currently have a large vSphere System where i VM a load of servers. 

I now need to also provide about 30 (max) Windows XP desktops for people to develop and test on (they need to do it remotely).

Its not a big requirement so I was thinking of providing the 30 desktops as virtual hosts, I also have XenApp so I was thinking I could publish either RDP or use vmplayer on XenApp to access the virtualised desktops.

Whats the easiest and cheapest solution here. I don't want to get into XenDesktop or VDI or something, it seems complete overkill to me.

Thanks

Desktop Virtualisation

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.