Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?
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@DustinB3403 said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
I don't understand how to build a VDI infrastructure - something I've never done before. Will I have performance issues? how much RAM do I need? etc, etc, etc.
Nothing to it. Nothing at all. Just install individual Windows 10 VMs. That's it. Same as a desktop. It's literally the same as physical.
Only gets complex with you start not talking about VDI, but proprietary "VDI add ons" like XenApp or whatever. Those are what cost money and make it hard... also great value from other things, not knocking them, just don't make any assumptions.
Doing one to one, always on VDI is ridiculously easy. People just RDP to their private instance.
OK, that's good to know. Thanks.
I know it's off topic - but do you have examples of who those add-ons can be/are worthwhile?If you want to deliver an office 365 app and nothing else. Is an example I've seen.
Makes for data processing "easy" without any distraction.
I wouldn't need a VDI add-on for that - I could use RDS published app for that - I'd still be suck using the RDP protocol, and not ICA or something else.
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
I don't understand how to build a VDI infrastructure - something I've never done before. Will I have performance issues? how much RAM do I need? etc, etc, etc.
Nothing to it. Nothing at all. Just install individual Windows 10 VMs. That's it. Same as a desktop. It's literally the same as physical.
Only gets complex with you start not talking about VDI, but proprietary "VDI add ons" like XenApp or whatever. Those are what cost money and make it hard... also great value from other things, not knocking them, just don't make any assumptions.
Doing one to one, always on VDI is ridiculously easy. People just RDP to their private instance.
OK, that's good to know. Thanks.
I know it's off topic - but do you have examples of who those add-ons can be/are worthwhile?Mostly it is stuff at scale or over the WAN where you need hard core WAN acceleration. Things that make sense when you have hundreds or users or whatever and want to leverage specific shared management of the machines rather than managing them the old fashioned way.
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
VDA licensing is what is or was $100/year. that's for non-SA devices.
Right - But windows 10 pro + SA = $299 + $59/yr
$188 on Open License
That makes that lower overall.
You can get the base license from Open License? You're the one that keeps saying you can't get anything but upgrade licenses from Open License/Value, etc.
Not the base, the base comes with your hardware (OEM). Then you get the upgrade from the VLSC.
If I have a device that already comes with Windows 10 - why do I want VDI?
So that you have the ability to log in from any device, be totally mobile, take your environment everywhere without lugging a device around, and use far cheaper devices.
Far cheaper, but still have windows on them? OK - but I still have to update those machines. - manage them. Though granted it becomes a lot easier because they are 'just windows'.
Right, you can get Windows 10 and keep it going for seven years pretty easily, for example.
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Well - no I didn't... I priced it out as you purchased a Windows Pro full license, then added SA - that way you could use your Chromebook, yet have the licensing option of Windows + SA.
Can't add SA to Windows Pro Full, only to the upgrade from the VLSC.
So you'd need full + upgrade + SA to do that.
Instead you'd use VDA, which is a flat fee.
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
The question I have is - can a Windows machine with Windows 10 Home + SA be performant enough at a cost that is less than a chromebook + Windows 10 full license and SA OR Chromebook + VDI license?
Nothing says you have to KEEP Windows on it. Buy cheap hardware with Windows 10 Pro, get your upgrade and SA and then install Linux if you want.
Performs better, lasts longer.
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@DustinB3403 said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
I don't understand how to build a VDI infrastructure - something I've never done before. Will I have performance issues? how much RAM do I need? etc, etc, etc.
Nothing to it. Nothing at all. Just install individual Windows 10 VMs. That's it. Same as a desktop. It's literally the same as physical.
Only gets complex with you start not talking about VDI, but proprietary "VDI add ons" like XenApp or whatever. Those are what cost money and make it hard... also great value from other things, not knocking them, just don't make any assumptions.
Doing one to one, always on VDI is ridiculously easy. People just RDP to their private instance.
OK, that's good to know. Thanks.
I know it's off topic - but do you have examples of who those add-ons can be/are worthwhile?If you want to deliver an office 365 app and nothing else. Is an example I've seen.
Makes for data processing "easy" without any distraction.
I wouldn't need a VDI add-on for that - I could use RDS published app for that - I'd still be suck using the RDP protocol, and not ICA or something else.
RDS itself is a high cost add on.
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@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Well - no I didn't... I priced it out as you purchased a Windows Pro full license, then added SA - that way you could use your Chromebook, yet have the licensing option of Windows + SA.
Can't add SA to Windows Pro Full, only to the upgrade from the VLSC.
So you'd need full + upgrade + SA to do that.
Instead you'd use VDA, which is a flat fee.
ERRRR - wrong - try again. You have 90 days to add SA to Windows Pro full. After that, you must buy the upgrade + SA.
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@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@DustinB3403 said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
I don't understand how to build a VDI infrastructure - something I've never done before. Will I have performance issues? how much RAM do I need? etc, etc, etc.
Nothing to it. Nothing at all. Just install individual Windows 10 VMs. That's it. Same as a desktop. It's literally the same as physical.
Only gets complex with you start not talking about VDI, but proprietary "VDI add ons" like XenApp or whatever. Those are what cost money and make it hard... also great value from other things, not knocking them, just don't make any assumptions.
Doing one to one, always on VDI is ridiculously easy. People just RDP to their private instance.
OK, that's good to know. Thanks.
I know it's off topic - but do you have examples of who those add-ons can be/are worthwhile?If you want to deliver an office 365 app and nothing else. Is an example I've seen.
Makes for data processing "easy" without any distraction.
I wouldn't need a VDI add-on for that - I could use RDS published app for that - I'd still be suck using the RDP protocol, and not ICA or something else.
RDS itself is a high cost add on.
So this was something I wasn't sure of - do you need RDS licenses for VDI as well? I didn't think you did - for example, I don't need an RDS license to RDP into my work desktop from home.. the Pro license simply allows that (as far as I know). Does running the VDI on a VM host change that requirement?
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Well - no I didn't... I priced it out as you purchased a Windows Pro full license, then added SA - that way you could use your Chromebook, yet have the licensing option of Windows + SA.
Can't add SA to Windows Pro Full, only to the upgrade from the VLSC.
So you'd need full + upgrade + SA to do that.
Instead you'd use VDA, which is a flat fee.
ERRRR - wrong - try again. You have 90 days to add SA to Windows Pro full. After that, you must buy the upgrade + SA.
What? Where can you do that? Is that inside the OS as an upgrade option? 90 days from when, install time?
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@DustinB3403 said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
I don't understand how to build a VDI infrastructure - something I've never done before. Will I have performance issues? how much RAM do I need? etc, etc, etc.
Nothing to it. Nothing at all. Just install individual Windows 10 VMs. That's it. Same as a desktop. It's literally the same as physical.
Only gets complex with you start not talking about VDI, but proprietary "VDI add ons" like XenApp or whatever. Those are what cost money and make it hard... also great value from other things, not knocking them, just don't make any assumptions.
Doing one to one, always on VDI is ridiculously easy. People just RDP to their private instance.
OK, that's good to know. Thanks.
I know it's off topic - but do you have examples of who those add-ons can be/are worthwhile?If you want to deliver an office 365 app and nothing else. Is an example I've seen.
Makes for data processing "easy" without any distraction.
I wouldn't need a VDI add-on for that - I could use RDS published app for that - I'd still be suck using the RDP protocol, and not ICA or something else.
RDS itself is a high cost add on.
So this was something I wasn't sure of - do you need RDS licenses for VDI as well?
Of course not, not relationship between the two.
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But you DO need an RDS license if you are going to put RDS in front of your VDI instances, which is so common (and makes so much money) that Microsoft often just acts like that's obviously "what you meant to do" and ignores that not everyone is going to do that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Well - no I didn't... I priced it out as you purchased a Windows Pro full license, then added SA - that way you could use your Chromebook, yet have the licensing option of Windows + SA.
Can't add SA to Windows Pro Full, only to the upgrade from the VLSC.
So you'd need full + upgrade + SA to do that.
Instead you'd use VDA, which is a flat fee.
ERRRR - wrong - try again. You have 90 days to add SA to Windows Pro full. After that, you must buy the upgrade + SA.
What? Where can you do that? Is that inside the OS as an upgrade option? 90 days from when, install time?
90 days from purchase of the Full (or OEM) license.
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@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
But you DO need an RDS license if you are going to put RDS in front of your VDI instances, which is so common (and makes so much money) that Microsoft often just acts like that's obviously "what you meant to do" and ignores that not everyone is going to do that.
Now you've lost me.
You put RDS (as in terminal services?) in front of VDI? why?
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Well - no I didn't... I priced it out as you purchased a Windows Pro full license, then added SA - that way you could use your Chromebook, yet have the licensing option of Windows + SA.
Can't add SA to Windows Pro Full, only to the upgrade from the VLSC.
So you'd need full + upgrade + SA to do that.
Instead you'd use VDA, which is a flat fee.
ERRRR - wrong - try again. You have 90 days to add SA to Windows Pro full. After that, you must buy the upgrade + SA.
What? Where can you do that? Is that inside the OS as an upgrade option? 90 days from when, install time?
90 days from purchase of the Full (or OEM) license.
Any link, I can't find anything from this decade on it. AFAIK SA is only available on the VLSC purchased license.
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@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Well - no I didn't... I priced it out as you purchased a Windows Pro full license, then added SA - that way you could use your Chromebook, yet have the licensing option of Windows + SA.
Can't add SA to Windows Pro Full, only to the upgrade from the VLSC.
So you'd need full + upgrade + SA to do that.
Instead you'd use VDA, which is a flat fee.
ERRRR - wrong - try again. You have 90 days to add SA to Windows Pro full. After that, you must buy the upgrade + SA.
What? Where can you do that? Is that inside the OS as an upgrade option? 90 days from when, install time?
90 days from purchase of the Full (or OEM) license.
Any link, I can't find anything from this decade on it. AFAIK SA is only available on the VLSC purchased license.
this doc is from 2003 though, so not this decade.
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Now you've lost me.
You put RDS (as in terminal services?) in front of VDI? why?
This is what "everyone" does, to the point that most vendors will even claim that it is "so common" that it is what "VDI really means", which is, of course, marketing crap. But when people say they have a "VDI system", this is part of what they mean.
I'm nearly the only person that ever talks about using VDI without it, in fact. Or without something that replaces it. All "VDI solutions" do something of this nature. Microsoft and Citrix use RDS specifically. Vmware and RHEL use alternatives that don't use RDP as the protocol.
All "VDI systems" are doing this. It's doing VDI on your own without some product to buy that is just about the only way to avoid that.
And as most IT views all implementations as "things you buy" rather than "things you do", VDI becomes reduced to RDS-like services since that is what you can "buy" with VDI in the name.
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Well - no I didn't... I priced it out as you purchased a Windows Pro full license, then added SA - that way you could use your Chromebook, yet have the licensing option of Windows + SA.
Can't add SA to Windows Pro Full, only to the upgrade from the VLSC.
So you'd need full + upgrade + SA to do that.
Instead you'd use VDA, which is a flat fee.
ERRRR - wrong - try again. You have 90 days to add SA to Windows Pro full. After that, you must buy the upgrade + SA.
What? Where can you do that? Is that inside the OS as an upgrade option? 90 days from when, install time?
90 days from purchase of the Full (or OEM) license.
Any link, I can't find anything from this decade on it. AFAIK SA is only available on the VLSC purchased license.
this doc is from 2003 though, so not this decade.
Yeah, I found something from 2009.
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@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Yeah, I found something from 2009.
So we agree that SA can be added to Full new or OEM licenses within 90 days?
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@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Yeah, I found something from 2009.
So we agree that SA can be added to Full new or OEM licenses within 90 days?
Seems reasonable. So that saves another $160 there.
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@scottalanmiller said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
Now you've lost me.
You put RDS (as in terminal services?) in front of VDI? why?
This is what "everyone" does, to the point that most vendors will even claim that it is "so common" that it is what "VDI really means", which is, of course, marketing crap. But when people say they have a "VDI system", this is part of what they mean.
I'm nearly the only person that ever talks about using VDI without it, in fact. Or without something that replaces it. All "VDI solutions" do something of this nature. Microsoft and Citrix use RDS specifically. Vmware and RHEL use alternatives that don't use RDP as the protocol.
All "VDI systems" are doing this. It's doing VDI on your own without some product to buy that is just about the only way to avoid that.
And as most IT views all implementations as "things you buy" rather than "things you do", VDI becomes reduced to RDS-like services since that is what you can "buy" with VDI in the name.
OK - now we are getting somewhere. I've never investigated the whole marketing thing behind VDI in the past - which is why I asked
@Dashrender said in Does VDI Conquer the Dashrender Challenge?:
I don't understand how to build a VDI infrastructure - something I've never done before. Will I have performance issues? how much RAM do I need? etc, etc, etc.
I've only seen/heard anyone talk about VDI in those marketing type setups.
So I have to ask - WTF? why would anyone want that? I mean of course, hundreds of users, etc WAN acceleration - I get those things... But why RDS in front of VDI? What's the gain?
I've also heard (I think) something about VDI solutions building and destroying VMs on the fly for users as they connect, to keep resource usage (mainly disk space I guess) down - is that a thing? I could see that being useful - but to the point of needing RDS in front of the VDI host to make it work?
It seems like the whole VDI thing is mainly a scam to get money for nothing?
Question - is it hard to get users to access their VDI assuming it's an always running VM? Do the users need some type of RDS gateway to make it easier to access? or to secure it?
We constantly see people saying 'never publish RDP to the internet' - but how much of that is just fud, and the real issue is poor passwords and no lockout policy?
