XEN, ESX and HyperV are the pure bare metal HVs. But to my knowledge you could run virtual desktops with Open Business, which is much cheaper if you only upgrade once every other release. I know MS has its select and enterprise agreements (both are rip offs due to the extreme costs) if thats what your talking about. What I didn' t know about is the annual fee. You are correct, no OEM is legal to run as a VDI. You miss understood my statement, I meant OEM's can be "upgraded" from OEM to true licensing (including VDI). I thought KVM ran faster then Xen? It was more "bare metal", at least for windows hosts. Microsoft has all of this listed in VDI threads in the community. (Even if an OEM was allowed, it would only allow for one license per server.) I realize a few people like it and feel that it is business ready but I don't like its performance at all or its architecture.Īll Microsoft VDI (desktop virtualization) requires a massive annual licensing fee in addition to OEMs being not allowed. RHEL 6 is, IMHO, a massive step backwards in virtualization as they drop enterprise Xen and go to the marginally business ready KVM. They'd have to issue new licenses to make OEMs be virtualized. Microsoft had stated that OEMs are out of the question. OEM's for the clients can be (at least it was the last time I talked with MS licensing) which is cheaper then buying new. Nothing more then probably what you can do with 5.5, but 6 will include some improvements on the technology from what I understand. What is CentOS 6 bringing us in this arena? Sort of, except that OEMs can't be converted for remote deployment and you have to pay annual fees on each virtualized machine. Especially if you do it a few at a time to help spread the costs out. That's VDI and requires lots of crazy expensive licensing which sucks.Īs far as MS licenses go, you can upgrade OEM client licenses so its not to bad. I'm basically planning on doing the same thing you are and this is how I'm going to do it. I should add that VMWare has a few free solutions that, when combined with the licenses attached to those 8 computers you are replacing, could get you well on your way. Maybe you could find some old licenses for sale online. I set up cheep terminal server with an old windows 2000 server license and some TS cals that were lying around unused. If you need some server or workstation for your own IT related uses go ahead and see if linux can do it and save some money but in this case you will want to do either virtual workstations using some solution from vmware, MS or citrix, or you will want to set up a windows terminal server. There are some very complicated and convoluted ways to get windows software to run on linux machines but you should just do your self a favor and follow this rule: Any time an end user will interact with the OS use windows. When you run LTS the user will be presented with a linux desktop.
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