Bare metal PC provisioning with Citix Provisioning server

a few questions to ponder:

If I take one disk image and stream it to 1000 Physical thin client devices devices using Citrix Provisioning Server  (not quite VDI) what licenses do I need?

According to the VECD Licensing guide:

These two diagrams illustrate the two core architectures possible with Microsoft VDI: static and dynamic.

In static mode, there is a one-to-one mapping of VMs to users. The more users you have, the more VMs you need.

VMs are stored on a SAN or NAS and execute on the server. Desktops are presented on the PC or thin client, depending on the situation.

In a dynamic [Centralized] architecture there is only one master image. Instead of having to manage many dedicated images, you support one image that is automatically replicated as needed for users.

One would think that if you’re using bare mental provisioning you would NOT need a VECD license as the image is running on the local device.

After all VECD stands for “Virtual Enterprise Centralized Desktop”

Any comments?

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