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Written by Tom Hirt
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Saturday, 04 April 2009 14:37 |
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Thin Client Overview
Implementing a thin client strategy can make a lot of sense during your next technology refresh. Thin clients coupled with VMware’s View (formally known as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure or VDI) offer not only a substantial return on investment (ROI), but can greatly reduce your day to day support efforts, especially for your remote offices where you might not have support staff.
You might recall the old diskless workstation days... there was a big push for thin clients, but they were slow and lacked basic features. These early attempts at a thin client were impracticable and lacked many features offered by a traditional desktop; it’s no wonder thin clients never gained wide spread adoption. But with advances in network bandwidth, CPU power and most recently virtualization, the thin client story has begun a new chapter in an otherwise old tale.
Today’s thin clients run comparable to native desktops, both in terms of speed and functionality. This is a big difference from the X-terminals and Novell diskless stations that we once knew. You can now run the same applications your corporate users are accustomed to, but without any changes to either the application or the interface they already use and know. We are going to skip over the many advantages you’ll have with a thin client solution and move straight into the configuration but we’ll have more articles very soon on the many features and advantages.
Thin clients have no moving components. That means no CPU fans, hard drives or other moving parts that can break or failing causing downtime. Downtime makes for unhappy customers and unhappy customers mean phone calls to you. In this article, we’ll show you how-to configure one of today’s hottest thin clients (Wyse’s V10L) with VMware’s View.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 June 2009 11:09 |
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