Virtualization is based on Hyper-V and as for an RDS server, the connection is made through the Windows RDP client.Īs you can see I put in dedicated quotation marks at the resource level, the virtual machines will share the Hypervisor resources, they will be careful of the CPU over-allocation which could impact the overall performance of the virtual machines. In a VDI infrastructure, for each user a virtual machine is started and dedicated to the user, therefore the environment is no longer shared and the resources are “dedicated” to the user and uses a Desktop version of Windows like Windows 10. As a reminder, on an RDS environment, a remote desktop host server will provide a shared environment to several users who will connect to the same server and therefore share resources (CPU, RAM, etc.). The main difference between VDI and an RDS farm is the isolation from the environment made available to the user. In this tutorial, I will explain how to install and configure a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) environment.īefore getting to the heart of the matter, I will quickly present to you what a virtual office infrastructure is and especially the difference with an RDS environment.

Checking the elements of the new VDI collection Creating a collection of virtual desktops

Windows server vdi setup