From the course: Learning Virtualization
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Virtualizing desktop computers
From the course: Learning Virtualization
Virtualizing desktop computers
- [Instructor] In this section, I'd like to talk about one of the common uses of virtualization and that is virtualization of the desktop. Organizations have many challenges of maintaining desktop computers. They have to troubleshoot unique setups. If every user has a different desktop computer, different hardware, different operating system, different software, that can make troubleshooting scenarios much more difficult. There's a constant race to upgrade applications and that can be very labor intensive. If you have to manually walk to every single desktop, put in a disk and do an upgrade, that can be very time consuming and it seems like as soon as you finish one upgrade, now it's time to upgrade a different application. And then there's the hardware of the desktop computer. It will need to be refreshed periodically either upgraded or buy a whole new machine. Some of these challenges can be overcome by using…
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