Comments on: Please tell me: ‘What is MED-V?’

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:36:45 +0000

What I meant was that setup-wise MED-V is like ACE. Centrally managing Virtual PC or Workstation VMs. Functionality-wise, ACE is more about securing the remote Workstation VM whereas MED-V can be used to manage Virtual PC VMs with legacy applications. So, I agree on the backward compatibility.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:35:04 +0000

As I see MED-V is that Microsoft had to do something to stay backwards compatible for applications with their Windows operating system, but they also had to move forward with 64 bit operating systems. MED-V is their solution to help the customers with older 16 and 32 bit applications that won't run on top of Vista and/or Windows 7.

I do not see it as an ACE variant but much more a way to help users with older applications through the use of MED-V or a Windows XP hidden in a virtual machine running on top of Vista or Windows 7 to deliver legacy application(s) completely seamless and transparent to the user.

By: Anne Jan Elsinga

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:48:07 +0000

Yes, I do agree that in case of an upgrade to Windows 7 it would be somewhat useful, although Windows 7 is not supported at the moment. It will be somewhere Q1 2010.
For the 16-bit part, well, yeah, I also agree, but I probably would advice the company to reevaluate that application instead of setting up another entity to manage. Most IT infrastructures are complex enough without MED-V.

By: Kent A

Kent A — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:26:31 +0000

Erik saw it the same way I saw it — a centrally managed virtual desktop environment similar to ACE without the feature set. The use case as I see it, you have an application which is not Win7 compatible even after application compatibility or 16-bit application on 64-bit system, and you need to deploy a managed environment as opposed to a random VM running in VM Workstation or Virtual PC 2010.

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:32:31 +0000

How I see it? MED-V is like VMware ACE and I don't see a real usecase for both. Or a very very limited one at most.
In my opinion MED-V has nothing to do with VDI whatsoever, locally hosted or centrally hosted. It would be nice to centrally manage Win Xp mode with it but as I understand the current version does not support that yet neiher does it support Windows 7.

So, I totally agree on the Application delivery conclusion.

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