Virtualization Strategies for the CIORemote Desktop Services (RDS) is an umbrella term for features of Microsoft Windows Server that allow users to remotely access graphical desktops and Windows applications.
Several technologies are part of remote desktop services:
- RemoteApp, released with Windows Server 2008, allows users to access individual applications on a shared server. Applications delivered by RemoteApp look and feel like local software applications, despite being executed on the server. This is sometimes referred to as “seamless windows” or “application publishing.”
- Remote Desktop Virtualization Host, introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2, allows users to connect to either a personal virtual desktop or to a virtual desktop dynamically assigned from a pool.
Remote Desktop Services applications and desktops can be accessed from a variety of client devices, operating systems, and form factors, as well as HTML 5 browsers and Java clients. Users view and interact with Remote Desktop Services resources through a remote display protocol. Microsoft provides the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) with Windows, and third-party companies can also create their own protocols, examples of which are Citrix HDX and VMware PC-over-IP.
The richness of the user experience with Remote Desktop Services may be limited by network bandwidth or remote display protocol capabilities. However, there many benefits, including the centralized management of many operating system images, the ability to use inexpensive thin clients to access server-class hardware, and increased security within the data center.
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