


A zero client is a small box connected to a keyboard, mouse and monitor, which has only a network interface, and operates in a client-server model, with no local storage capacity. Thin clients are low-cost computing devices with low-performance hardware (just enough to connect to the server and input/output signals). Users can connect to a VMware Horizon virtual desktop through a personal computer (PC), tablet, smartphone, thin client, or zero client.

This allows you to take advantage of vSphere features such as Snapshot, vMotion, High Availability, and Distributed Resource Scheduler. These in turn are managed by a full version of VMware vSphere. In VMware Horizon, user desktops are based on VMs running on ESXi hosts. It is based on VMware vSphere virtualization, adding functionality to manage and deliver virtualized desktops. The core product of the VMware VDI solution is VMware Horizon.

Large enterprises use VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions to centrally manage desktops and applications and deliver them to users remotely. VDI on VMware: Architecture and Solution Overview What is VMware VDI?
