For all those SBC consultants, admins out there, have a read of a September 26 article from Brian Madden
VDI for hundreds of apps and thousands of users?
A case study where we recommended this instead of a Terminal Server-based solution
But can VDI come out a niche and into the main stream?
The ending is key:
"If so, then bravo Citrix! Can we just please have Presentation Server and Desktop server integrated into a single farm in a single product? Can you integrate it with Ardence and XenSource? And can you make it cost less than $1200 per CCU? If not, well, whatever. This SoftGrid/Provision/VMware/Ardence solution looks pretty"
Not sure about my thoughts yet, but the hardware investment alone is just not mentioned for what would make fuly VDI solution possible. I mean, <=32 VMs per PowerEdge 6850...is this really a good cost to power ratio?