XenApp even allows for unique IP addresses for each application instance and even some dedicated memory spaces.īoth Microsoft and VMware offer solutions for pure application virtualization. the watching the same hardware only able to support 15 full desktop OS’s (this was a while ago, but I think the comparison is linear based on modern hardware).

Years ago, I witnessed 45 or more users streaming Lotus Notes 6 clients from a single XenApp host vs.

My experience has been that XenApp is about 300% denser than full VDI. In addition to the performance advantages, the Windows desktop ecosystem also has container solutions that address the challenge of application portability and environment independence. XenApp has similar performance advantages over virtual desktop as containers have over full Linux OS virtualization. Windows has had application virtualization in different forms from many vendors.

If you have primarily worked in a Windows Server environment, you may be asking yourself what’s the big deal about containers? After all, we’ve seen this all play out on the desktop side for years.

Vmware thinapp vs docker