2X VirtualDesktopServer 7.1 review

Delivering terminal services and virtual desktops to many thousands of users can present a management nightmare. Support staff can often struggle to provide secure remote access to multiple hosts offering a range of applications and services.

2X offers a selection of products that aim to provide cost-effective, centralised management solutions for virtual applications and desktops and significantly reduce the time taken to publish them to clients. It already has a strong following for its ApplicationServer, which targets Windows Terminal Server environments only and its latest VirtualDesktopServer (VDS) goes much further by adding support for all key virtualisation technologies including Microsoft’s Hyper-V, VMware, Parallels and Oracle’s Virtual Iron.

Essentially, VDS functions as an RDP based connection broker that maintains lists of virtual applications and desktops and publishes them to users for selection over secure connections. It goes much further as server load balancing is included as standard. What it does is to manage whole server farms and direct user requests to the least loaded members.

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