The primary starting point comes down to a major decision on what hypervisor to use: VMware’s ESX/ESXi or Citrix’s XenServer (Hyper-V support is expected in the near future). Kaviza offers a great deal of support and documentation that helps with planning. Kaviza uses a consolidated virtual software appliance and direct-attached storage as opposed to requiring connection brokers, load balancers, management and compute servers, and shared storage. The planning process with Kaviza proves to be much simplier than with other VDI solutions because Kaviza differs greatly from traditional VDI. The first step with Kaviza’s VDI-in-a-Box comes down to planning: planning what equipment to use, the size of your deployment, what hypervisor to use and what operating systems to deliver as virtual PCs to the users. For those looking to deploy VDI in manageable stages over time, Kaviza may prove to be the right answer, thanks to the product’s dynamic grid and ease of template management. However, there is room for improvement-better real-time monitoring, for example, would benefit administrators by eliminating the need for third-party asset management tools.Īlso, the licensing of operating systems and applications can be somewhat complicated, but that is more a reflection of software vendors’ antiquated licensing policies than a problem with Kaviza. Kaviza does an excellent job of covering the basics of VDI, making it easy for administrators to deploy and end users to access. I took Kaviza’s VDI-in-a-Box product for a test drive to see if it could deliver on the original promise of VDI, making things simpler for administrators, while still providing an acceptable end-user experience and ultimately saving money. Kaviza is seeking to bring VDI benefits to fruition with Version 3.1 of its VDI-in-a-Box applicance, which it says greatly simplifies the installation and provisioning of VDI without harming the inherent flexibility of VDI-powered desktops. However, VDI comes with its own set of challenges, often proving to be expensive, complex to deploy and hard to manage-all of which threatens to eliminate the technology’s anticipated benefits. Virtual desktop infrastructure products are marketed on the promise that they will eliminate many of the desktop deployment and management headaches administrators struggle with on a daily basis.
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