VDI Improves Performance

The clients, not the users, are near the servers

Normally desktop based client applications access services delivered by server applications through physical infrastructure based client networks. These office networks can be distant to the data centre containing the servers being accessed by the client applications, introducing latency and reduced bandwidth.

Performance of desktops client operating systems accessed by VDI clients using presentation protocols can outperform normal desktop due to the placement of the virtual infrastructure servers that host the virtual machines.

In a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) the client operating system and application are in a Virtual Machine hosted on a virtual infrastructure server that is located inside the data centre. This ensures that all the network I/O between the client applications and their server services will be a datacenter speeds.