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Gartner Glossary

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is a full, thick-client user environment run as a VM on a server and accessed remotely. VDI implementations comprise:

Server virtualization software to host desktop software (as a server workload)
Brokering/session management software to connect users to their desktop environments
Tools for managing the provisioning and maintenance (for example, reimages) of the virtual desktop software stack

Gartner Glossary

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

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