Tom's mini-PC can surf/stream, comes up short with office apps and doesn't do Windows 11, but is perfectly capable of running a thin-client OS in a VDI setup.
In his final series article, Tom puts the nifty little device through all its VDI paces -- and likes what he sees.
In part 3 of his series on the SimplyNUC Moonstone mini-PC, Tom installs VMware Workstation on the device and runs and benchmarks the performance of a small and large Windows 10 VM.
In part 2 of his series, Tom benchmarks the device to have a baseline to compare the virtual machines he will run on it after installing VMware Workstation.
Tom gets his hands on SimplyNUC's most powerful AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone, sticks Workstation on it and declares: "This thing is a beast in a very small package."
After previous benchmarking tests, Tom attempts to install and run a bare-metal hypervisor on the low-priced, small form-factor PC.
Tom installs Workstation on an ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC to benchmark its performance running a small and large Windows 10 VM.
"If you have a business that has seasonal spikes, DaaS makes a lot of sense."
Tom explains how HCI works with VDI.
Tom looks at ways to offload UC processes from datacenter CPUs to VDI clients, monitoring remote assets and the benefits of using SD-WAN.
With the basics out of the way, Tom looks at some VDI techniques to increase performance and decrease costs.
After previously explaining what VDI is and its recent history, Tom dives in to specific components and some best practices around them.
Don't throw away your old printer just because it's no longer supported on Windows 10 -- follow these steps to set up an easy workaround.
You can run VMware Horizon Client for Android with the latest release of BlueStacks.
Today VMware Inc. announced the availability of the newest versions of its virtual platforms VMware Workstation 15 and VMware Fusion 11.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 09/25/2018