This post could be titled as RDP vs PCoIP on view 5 as well.
Almost 3 years I wrote about citrix vs vmware VDI here:
http://rjalan.blogspot.com/2009/01/vmware-vdi-vs-citrix-xendesktop.html
We ended up going vmware view route as it was apropos for our use case scenario. As things change always, we have few users going for low latency links and multiple hops and we started seeing perfomance issues with view 4.
We just upgraded to view 5, and using zero client with PCoIP we are seeing almost 70-75% reduction in bandwidth usage versus regular RDP over view 5. And performance for flash and videos is considerably better. Video is still little choppy but bearable. In earlier version, it was just showing broken images being refreshed.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Monday, January 12, 2009
Vmware VDI vs Citrix Xendesktop
Few months ago we did a bakeoff between Vmware VDI and Citrix Xendesktop solution.
Few things that are worth a mention for differences between these:
1. Citrix ICA protocol for remote desktop connectivity is better with multimedia apps than RDP 5.x.
2. Both RDP and ICA are bandwidth hogs, ICA might be slightly better over low latency link. Average bandwidth usage over WAN without any policing/acceleration technology was 300kbps with both ICA and RDP.
3. Citrix Presentation server has a great option of saving the disk space for multiple cloned desktops and also upgrading/patching only one master image and refreshing all desktops from it.
4. Citrix Access gateway for secure connectivity from outside seems like a separate purchase.(didn’t test it)
We didn't go ahead with the whole project at that time.
Now Vmware has announced availability for VMware view that addresses point # 1,3 and 4 above. We are currently doing a bake off of vmware view and I will soon post how it went.
Few things that are worth a mention for differences between these:
1. Citrix ICA protocol for remote desktop connectivity is better with multimedia apps than RDP 5.x.
2. Both RDP and ICA are bandwidth hogs, ICA might be slightly better over low latency link. Average bandwidth usage over WAN without any policing/acceleration technology was 300kbps with both ICA and RDP.
3. Citrix Presentation server has a great option of saving the disk space for multiple cloned desktops and also upgrading/patching only one master image and refreshing all desktops from it.
4. Citrix Access gateway for secure connectivity from outside seems like a separate purchase.(didn’t test it)
We didn't go ahead with the whole project at that time.
Now Vmware has announced availability for VMware view that addresses point # 1,3 and 4 above. We are currently doing a bake off of vmware view and I will soon post how it went.
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