# Hardware deployment Strategies


## Virtual Desktop Interface

aka 0-Clients: network hosted OS is what each client would use.

In some cases that network is a pool of servers which are tapped into.
Clients can vary in specs like explained below(context: university):

> Pool for a Library

Clients retain low hardware specs since most are just using office applications and not much else.

> Pool for an Engineering department

Clients connect to another pool where both clients and pool have better hardware specs/resources.

The downside is that there is _1 point of failure_.
The pool goes down and so does everyone else, meaning downtime is going to cost way more than a single machine going down.