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Brian Madden

I just got out of my first breakout session here at VMworld Europe 2009. It was a session about the cost savings of VDI. The presenter was good and the content was basically good. In the session, the presenter walked step-by-step through a comparison of a traditional fat-client desktop computing model with a VMware View 3-based VDI model. She covered capex and opex expenses and looked at all the reasons customers could save money (both hard and soft costs) by going with VDI.

I agreed with MOST of the content of the session. However, I think VMware left out two very, very important things. In fact these omissions are so great that they would “break” VMware’s VDI cost savings model. But instead of addressing them, VMware just ignored them. (They weren’t even mentioned!) Most of the audience was new to VDI (as evidenced by the number of hands that went up when the presenter asked how many people had heard of VECD and who had used ThinApp.)

Check out this article about VDI, it was very interesting, I know the main driver for one of the organizations I spoke to for VDI was simply to reduce the amount of time and effort expanded on the desktop. The users got a virtual machine which could be re-imaged on demand in minutes, rather than spend time managing desktop assets, windows versions and licenses.

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