A midsize company plans to replace aging desktop PCs with inexpensive thin clients. The goal is for all user operating systems, processing, and data to reside on servers in the data center so the IT team can push out a single gold image and quickly provision identical desktops to any employee who logs in. Which desktop virtualization solution best meets these requirements?
Provide applications through a SaaS platform that streams them to web browsers
Install a Type 2 hypervisor on each thin client and run individual desktop VMs locally
Use containerization to package each user's applications on the thin clients
Deploy a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on centralized servers and have thin clients connect to those virtual machines
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) hosts full user desktop virtual machines on centralized Type 1 hypervisor servers. Thin clients simply present the remote desktop session, so all OS execution, updates, and storage remain in the data center and a single master image can be cloned for rapid deployment. A Type 2 hypervisor would run locally and defeat the purpose of moving workloads off the endpoint. Containerizing applications still leaves the underlying desktop OS on the client. Application streaming (SaaS) delivers individual apps, not complete managed desktops, and does not guarantee a standardized desktop environment.
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