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What about OS Streaming ?

I used in the past an amazing product developed by a small French company named Qualystem.
The product was named LAN-PC3 and it was able to stream a complete virtual disk to diskless clients. I used to build "cheap diskless PCs" with Via Epia boards and to stream Windows XP Pro OS to these clients, from a Linux server.
The beauty was that the local OS on the clients "believed" it had a real disk drive, but actually there was a single virtual disk drive file on the server, that all the client used at the same time.
There was no deployment to do: We just had to teach the user how to update its single virtual disk file and all the clients could use the updated disk after they rebooted.
We could also share such a virtual Windows XP disk drive to VMWare "diskless guests" and connect an RDP client to such guests (we were doing VDI before VDI existed, without any connection broker thought).
My customers were mainly schools and libraries. And I think that a lot of them still uses the solution we built for them.

I know that Qualystem has been acquired by Neoware and that Neoware marketed and sold the same product under "Neoware Image Manager" name.

Now that Neoware has been acquired by HP, it seems that there are a few web pages on HP site regarding "Neoware Image Manager", but I thought that there would be more focus on this "virtual desktop" technology/OS Streaming now that everyone is talking about VDI.

In the past, with this product, I could stream a Windows XP Pro OS to a VMWare guest, stream another Windows XP OS - it could have been XP embedded, but I used XP Pro - to a diskless device and run "Remote Desktop" so that diskless device opened the remote desktop that was run on VMWare guest. I did that for maintenance reasons, I never thought about using it for "production" in the way that what the smart folks thought about for VDI!

So what about "OS Streaming" in HP? It seems that they own a decent technology for that, that it fits perfectly in the "Desktop Virtualization" scope... I would love to be able to offer complete "HP virtual desktop" solutions to my customers, with an "OS Streaming" component. I think it would be perfect for some usages (even if not for all the cases, of course)

Posted by: zaz0u   Posted on: 04/10/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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