I inherited Unidesk. I switched as our license agreement was coming up. So I did the research into what we were already paying for with our Enterprise Horizon license. The new version 4.x of Unidesk was many steps in the wrong direction. I have it a fair shot against AV with exact same Appstacks/layers and base image builds. The Unidesk process is horrifically slow even on complete flash storage on my HP 3PAR. Just to prepare the master image took over 40mins for Unidesk take the vhd and get it into the system and move onto the next step. Multiply that time for the same process to get layers(appstacks) available as well. The older 2.x product was still slow in comparison but viable. Also, I wanted to shift to the non-persistent route to trim space from my datastores and make the management side of things much easier. I don't know how Unidesk has progressed since it became Citrix, but I have no intention of looking back. Maintenance was time-consuming versus updating an appstack making changes and rebooting. Along with everything being persistent desktops things could get out of hand with what users were doing on their desktops.
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