Crucial Technologies wants to give remote employees a complete Windows desktop environment that runs as a virtual machine on servers in the company's data center. Users connect with thin clients over the network; the virtual desktop keeps running on the host even after they log off, and all processing and storage remain centralized. Which desktop-virtualization model best describes this solution?
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) delivers full, persistent (or non-persistent) desktop operating systems as virtual machines hosted on a hypervisor cluster in the data center. End users connect through a broker over RDP-type protocols, so everything-CPU cycles, memory, and storage-remains on the server. Application virtualization delivers only individual apps, containers package code at the OS-kernel level, and a Type 2 hypervisor runs VMs on top of a client OS rather than on a dedicated host server.
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