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What Does “Virtualization” Mean For Trinity?

Friday, 22 December 2006 by Michel Roth

This post by a vendor again shows the lines between terms Server Based Computing and virtualization are fading rapidly. Server Based Computing is always associated with Terminal Server and/or Citrix but this doesn't necessarily have to be the case. The point is that you have central control (Server Based). Think about it, Softgrid, Ardence, Citrix, Vmware, Microsoft, Thin Clients ...I will devote an article to this, at the end of the year. Any way, in this article by an Citrix Architect, the concept of project Trinity gets explained further. Particularly on how it is positioned next to virtualization technologies:

"I want to spend a few moments to clarify how the DDI vision differs from VDI. I hope that this will also explain the relationship between Trinity and a few forms of “virtualization” that are currently in circulation.

The major difference between DDI and VDI should be clear from the choice of terms and acronyms: while “virtualization” clearly plays a big role in VDI, the more generic term “dynamic” is used for DDI. This highlights that we envisage Trinity to be a generic desktop brokering solution that is not intimately tied to a particular virtualization solution with desktops executing as virtual machines. More specifically, VDI is of course VMware's term, hence in a strict sense a VDI solution would require desktops to execute on top of VMware's Virtual Infrastructure. However, it is straightforward to generalise the concept for other virtualization vendors such as Microsoft or XenSource."

Read it here.

The article also references a very cool session (MED0062) from VMworld where was discussed how the largest virtualized desktop environment in the world was deployed.