Everything That There Is To Know About VDI Licensing with Windows
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@Dashrender said:
So as a business, that's their only job. Literally, their singular job. If you feel that they are not doing it, you feel that this is intentionally not doing their jobs (stealing from the business?)
Of course!
This I understand, if the belief that a massive percentage of people hired to be business financial decisions makers use that opportunity to steal from the company (by being paid for a job that they are not doing at all) then I can understand that. It seems like such an easy task, but I guess if people think that they can get away with it, they'll steal anything.
I learned this while working at a chemical plant. So many people were open, proud of it media pirates. I realized then that every single one of them would steal my car and my television if they truly thought that they could get away with it. None of them didn't steal because it was wrong, they all only didn't steal because they were fearful.
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What is mind blowing is not that people steal. Most people, I think, would commit all kinds of terrible acts if they truly believed that they were completely safe in doing so. That part I get. It is that so many people will brag about it, find that it is socially acceptable and, the big one, the people who manage them all the way up to the owners and investors, simply don't care that their money is being funnelled out to someone for no reason and that the person that they paid to protect them from that is the one making it happen. They didn't just pay someone and have them not do their job, they did the very thing that they, we suppose, were hired to protect them from!
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It's a bit like continuing to pay the king's body guard not after the guard failed to protect the king, but are the ones who actually killed him!
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None of this is to suggest that Windows isn't right for a lot of companies, that people attempt to make good decisions and fail, that factors change over time, etc. I'm just saying that if you feel people are choosing it for reasons other than feeling it is good for their business or they have been threatened in some way... then really, stealing from the company (through laziness, through kickbacks, etc.) appears to be the only thing that we could be stating about them.
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Funny this topic is here, because I'm now looking at VDI and wondering why the hell anyone would consider it.
Server 2012 R2 with TS CAL for 30 people is 1/3 the cost of just the Desktop licensing. Not even including the bump in hardware to run it or anything else. Just desktop licensing..
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@DustinB3403 said:
Funny this topic is here, because I'm now looking at VDI and wondering why the hell anyone would consider it.
There are use cases, but they are niche. It's for generally large environments, with a heavy Windows investment, that are tied to the desktop versions of the OS and cannot use RDS. There are exceptions to that, but that is, more or less, the intended audience.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Server 2012 R2 with TS CAL for 30 people is 1/3 the cost of just the Desktop licensing. Not even including the bump in hardware to run it or anything else. Just desktop licensing..
Sort of, you still need physical desktops. Windows desktop licensing is just part of the hardware (in essentially all cases) so it isn't a cost that can be easily compared to something else.
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Or do you mean the RDS vs. Windows 10 Ent + SA cost?
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RDS to a virtual Server 2012 r2 running our "user applications" office 365 and such
vs "traditional" VDI as Citrix would sell it.
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@DustinB3403 said:
RDS to a virtual Server 2012 r2 running our "user applications" office 365 and such
vs "traditional" VDI as Citrix would sell it.
Okay, so just RDS vs. VDI licensing.
Citrix doesn't sell vanilla VDI, they only sell XenDesktop which is a big VDI management system on top of vanilla VDI.
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Citrix "big" product is XenApp which is actually a direct replacement for RDS and isn't VDI at all. RDS is actually XenApp under the hood with high end features striped out. MS buys it from Citrix.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Citrix "big" product is XenApp which is actually a direct replacement for RDS and isn't VDI at all. RDS is actually XenApp under the hood with high end features striped out. MS buys it from Citrix.
I thought MS and Citrix parted ways on that stuff a while ago, each doing their own development?
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@Dashrender said:
I thought MS and Citrix parted ways on that stuff a while ago, each doing their own development?
Maybe, but it's XenApp as the original base code. Just like SQL Server was purchased code from Sybase and Windows NT was OS/2.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I thought MS and Citrix parted ways on that stuff a while ago, each doing their own development?
Maybe, but it's XenApp as the original base code. Just like SQL Server was purchased code from Sybase and Windows NT was OS/2.
Yeah, that's definitely the case.
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Yeah what I'm foreseeing we're going to need is a simple way for our employees to access a setup, ready to go system after connecting to the network that has their email and document creative softwares.
Which IMO is traditional RDS.
VDI just doesn't fit in with where we need it.
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Dustin, something to consider when looking at RDS vs VDI too is what will the user use to connect to the session with?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@FATeknollogee said:
What a racket MS has going!!
Only sort of. You are always free to use RDS for remote Windows usage. Or to use Linux desktops VDI or terminal servers. You are never trapped with MS. So no matter what they charge, it's not really unfair as there is no lock in. Expensive, yes but their customers choose them because they think that it is a good investment.
What is Linux desktop VDI?
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@FATeknollogee said:
What is Linux desktop VDI?
I assume there's no way to run a Windows app using the Linux VDI mechanism?VDI just means a one to one virtualized system rather than a shared one.
Shared is terminal servers (many users to one OS.)
VDI is one user per OS.
So you can do either model with any OS you want. Windows terminal server is called RDS. All Linux are terminal servers out of the box. You can do VDI with Linux just as you can with Windows, it's identical.
Using Linux as your desktop does not allow you to run Windows apps. It's a Linux desktop, same as using a Linux desktop anywhere.
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@NTG has multiple terminal servers, all Linux.
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If your application is Windows only, then you're kinda "stuck" with MS...
OTOH, if your app will install in Windows or Linux, one would have a lot more to choose from.
