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What is typically on a virtual desktop
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Ie on traditional desktop pcs you have storage and software
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Ie on traditional desktop pcs you have storage and software

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A virtual desktop contains the same items as your physical desktop, in your computer!<br />
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You have storage and software on your typical virtual desktop.<br />
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other than you access it remotely via Internet, LAN or cable!
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A virtual desktop contains the same items as your physical desktop, in your computer!

You have storage and software on your typical virtual desktop.

other than you access it remotely via Internet, LAN or cable!

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What kind of risks are there when virtual desktop infrastructure is not available. i am struggling to get my head around the concept. When a production database server or application server goes down the risks are obvious, but I am trying to get my head around the issues when VDI goes down, is not available. Rarely do users save data to their physical or virtual desktop, can anyone assist or give a view? Why is desktop infrastructure so essential? Perhaps not being able to login to the network at all?
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What kind of risks are there when virtual desktop infrastructure is not available. i am struggling to get my head around the concept. When a production database server or application server goes down the risks are obvious, but I am trying to get my head around the issues when VDI goes down, is not available. Rarely do users save data to their physical or virtual desktop, can anyone assist or give a view? Why is desktop infrastructure so essential? Perhaps not being able to login to the network at all?

virtual desktop infrastructure risks

Citrix is the synonym for the virtualization and application infrastructure systems developed by the company of the same name. Main areas are application virtualization, Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), cloud-computing and networking. The two most well-known are Citrix XenApp or Citrix CloudPlatform.

Citrix

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.

VMware

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.