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Leaving VMware? Consider these 5 FOSS hypervisors • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

In our case we have over 1500 employees using it, but only about 500 at a time. It’s an extreme waste of resources to have to provision 3x the hardware rather than use ephemeral systems. Also it’s much easier to patch a “gold” image and recompose entire pools than have to manage all of the systems as if they were full on laptops. Just to name a couple things off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thin clients?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yup. That’s another reason we don’t have individual systems. And most thin clients aren’t designed to connect 1:1 to a VM. They usually need a broker of some sort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the explanation

[–] SheeEttin 1 points 9 months ago

Citrix has a product for that don't they? Pretty sure Microsoft does too, but I'm assuming it's just in Azure and isn't as good as third-party products.

Or if you don't need the fancy stuff, good old RDS pools still work fine. You could probably write your own automation on top of Proxmox too.