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We are looking to implement a virtualized desktop environment (VDI) utilizing VMWare Horizon View 6 in part of our corporate environment. We're looking at several potential options, one of which is using a large pool of physical desktops that we have available to us. <br />
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If you have implemented VDI in a corporate environment utilizing physical desktops, can you tell me about your experience? Did you decide to use a kernal-based environment to implement the Windows OS layer? Or did you decide to go ahead and implement an OS layer and simply use the Horizon View client? Our environment really shouldn't have a need for an OS layer, but I could see some advantages and disadvantages to it.<br />
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If you've explored these options and have some advice or input, I'd appreciate it. <br />
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Thank you!
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We are looking to implement a virtualized desktop environment (VDI) utilizing VMWare Horizon View 6 in part of our corporate environment. We're looking at several potential options, one of which is using a large pool of physical desktops that we have available to us. 

If you have implemented VDI in a corporate environment utilizing physical desktops, can you tell me about your experience? Did you decide to use a kernal-based environment to implement the Windows OS layer? Or did you decide to go ahead and implement an OS layer and simply use the Horizon View client? Our environment really shouldn't have a need for an OS layer, but I could see some advantages and disadvantages to it.

If you've explored these options and have some advice or input, I'd appreciate it. 

Thank you!

VDI and Desktops

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.