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It is used to create,manage and depoly our VDI's. It is used across the organization.
- Small Company and great support
- The product is simple to use, extremely user friendly
- Does what it says, truly a great tool for application virtualization.
- Ability to launch an application with no underline OS (Just like XenApp)
October 16, 2015
Unidesk - Simplify your VDI
Right now, I'm using Unidesk for a set number of machines and I'm using all persistent desktops. My major business problem being solved is reducing the number of images from several to just two (a Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 64-bit) and providing a quick easy solution for deploying applications that do not work with other application virtualization products.
- Delivers the majority of applications without issue
- Unified console for managing all aspects of Virtual Desktop management
- User layer on a persistent desktop provide an easy profile solution
- Layers provides the ability to reduce down to 1 Gold Image
- No more interacting with Hyper-V, RDS or vCenter
- Speeds up application turn around time
- I would love if the User Layer persisted on non-persistent desktops
- A better experience for the actual assigning of applications and desktops (improvements to the console)
- Partner with a vendor that provides a legacy browser solution
October 09, 2015
Unidesk is a win for persistent virtual desktop deployment.
Our Unidesk solution is being used to simplify virtual desktop management across a few different areas. On the backend the savings in increased disk efficiency and data-deduplication means that our SAN can handle a larger number of desktops and maintain much higher operational IO compared to traditional persistent virtual desktops. Additionally our staff who handle deployments are able to provision and ready a virtual machine in under 10 minutes a desktops with very little technical experience needed for the deployment.
- Increased efficiency of existing/new SAN infrastructure.
- Prompt and responsive support.
- Ease of deployment.
- Efficiencies in workflow transparent to the end-user.
- Disaster recovery options for the Unidesk solution are not easily accessible or require personalized attention from support.
- Issues when creating software layers do not always have a obvious fix. Make sure to look for and follow Unidesk's published "recipes."
- The software/OS layering introduced by Unidesk is not "sanctioned" behavior by Microsoft, and thus you're at the mercy of Unidesk's ability to keep up with widespread changes to operating systems.
October 19, 2015
UniDesk-Top player for me in desktop layer technology.
We are using Unidesk for persistent desktops for the entire organization for the users that demand virtual desktops. We find it so much easier and more efficient to use this layering technology to quickly spin up the virtual machines and assign the various layers to the desktops as we see fit. We are abstracting the desktops from the users so that if a desktop becomes corrupted for whatever reason, we simply assign them another one and do not worry about anything else since their data is on the network.
- Creating application layers is easy to do. It's just a matter of installing the applications as you would normally do on a computer.
- Unidesk's technology isn't sandbox like VMware's ThinApp technology so it works much better and is more compatible with other software.
- The admin console and technology in general is easy to learn for the administrator while it's transparent to the end users.
- Layering technologies still presents challenges in general. There are certain applications which are stubborn and do not work as intended so Unidesk keeps a library of "recipes" for many applications where it outlines specific ways or methods to install the applications so that it will work smoothly once it's assigned.
- There are limits to the amount of layers that can assigned and the more layers you have, the more complex and more chances of the various layers stepping on each other toes. It may also slow the virtual machines but it's not that noticeable.
- An application layer is tied to the OS that it's built from. So if you have two master OS images, you'll need to create separate app layers, one for each master OS, contrary to their claim.
October 09, 2015
Quick full desktop deployment for new hires !
We are in the architect engineering service sector. Our users variy from general office to 3D Cadd/Revit. The best thing about Unidesk is reduced provision time for application assignments. It is used across two of our four offices. I've found Unidesk drastically reduces my time to deploy apps to new hires, and allows for various OS version assignments to different types of users. The other thing that is big is storage saving on our SAN - big ticket item for us.
- The various layers of applications allows me to pick and choose who gets what easily. The best part is these layers can be updated and re-assigned across desktops upon reboot.
- Occasionally if a desktop is left on for too long some weird things happens. For example, the desktop is no longer recognized in AD - it could be AD, removal, etc., but I have checked all these. Refreshing and restoring the VM seems to solve the problem. This happened more than once.
- We have redundancy (two) connection brokers - Unidesk has trouble from time to time knowing which one to use it seems.
- The rebuild takes too long when the VM is larger. Users would reboot their desktop as a normal routine and they call to reboot thinking their VD is down when it was just taking its time to rebuild the layers (anywhere from 5 to 15 mins. Mostly 15mins).
March 01, 2016
Unidesk Virtual Desktop Management Product Review
We use Unidesk to deploy and manage over 100 non-persistent virtual desktops within our organization. It is used across many departments, but is solely managed by the Information Technology Department. It provides a simple, friendly platform for developing customized virtual desktops that requires minimal time to manage.
- Takes the complexity out of the virtual desktop development process.
- Provides responsive, quality product technical support.
- Stays current with competitors in terms of features and standards.
- More hands-on support while bringing Unidesk into a new environment would be useful.
- More formalized training for those new to the product (I actually believe Unidesk has already developed something to address this).
October 13, 2015
Unidesk at a Midwest College
The application was used to quickly implement a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to create Virtual Computer Labs for students. It allowed us to quickly create customizable computing environments.
- I really liked how easy it made it to create application layers.
- Unidesk also allow us to created various combinations of software to suit different types of classrooms.
- It's software version control made it easy to diagnose compatibility issues.
- I would have liked for it to make it easier to work on simultaneous adding software layers.
- Support on license/software authentication handling could be nice.
- I would have liked a sleeker user interface.
Unidesk (Discontinued) Scorecard Summary
About Unidesk (Discontinued)
Unidesk was a virtual desktop technology from the Massachusetts company of the same name, and acquired by Citrix. It has reached End of Life (EOL).
Categories: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Unidesk (Discontinued) Technical Details
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| Mobile Application: | No |