paul121

Yes and Yes! You have the right idea ish - and you could do a room for the same cost as buying standard PCs. You could even go down the Citrix route and still save money giving a much better performance,.

HyperV is not a production product. Speak to John Reynolds at The Campion School - i know him and he took six months deploying HyperV across 5 hosts all to save the license cost of £1600. So in the end he didnt save anything he lost money. VMware Essentials Plus is all you need for a school and at a cost of £1600 why should you look to HyperV - plus VMware gives us all more experience in the outside world - nobody uses Microsoft outside of schools - its a feature less non production product + you have to install Server 2008 as its not a bare metal hypervisor. VMware/Citrix is - much higher performing.

I would say around 20 or so - drop me a PM if you want and i can tell you about our environment.

VMware licensing is good for schools - i got it for £2k - Essentials Plus which you aren't going to outgrow. Plus Microsoft virtualisation products aren't nowhere near as good.

VMware all the way with servers and Citrix for the desktop - the licenses are cheap cheap now - we have it here. MS isnt as mature yet - steer away if possible.

Thanks - some good bits to bear in mind.

Hi VMware Viewer? You mean VMware Vie i assume. The axels dont actually support HDX or PCoIP do they? So i assume they use a lot more bandwidth over the network? Looking to put it into our school in the next few years - got to have either HDX or PCoIP

Hi yes you would be welcome to come see us - we are in Epping on the Herts/Essex border PM me your details.

great video - like it a lot. On another note, i am sure i sat in on one of those virtualisation webinars above - a few months ago. Was pretty good iirc. Worth having a look.