VMWare VDI the way forward

VMWare has taken the market with its server virtualisation software and now it plans to do the same with its desktop virtualisation technology.

This video shows how you can deply 100 desktops in 13 mins and only use 10GB of diskspace using Vmware VDI.  The network storage device is NetApps with the use of Data De-Duplication.

Data de-duplication is a storage technology which eliminates duplicate and therefore redundant data within a storage array. In this example, instead of having a 100 copies of the same operating system files, de-duplication would create a symbolic link to each block that contains the files.