csnotes/412/hardware-strats.md

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.