Re: Deepfreeze on vm's?

[Mike Lococo <mike.lococo () NYU EDU>]

On 12/06/2011 06:00 PM, Brandon Payne wrote:
> We are looking into VDI for all our computer labs. VMware View to be exact
> with WYSE P20 Zero Clients. Roughly about 300 or more vm's for all the labs.
>
> From a virtual standpoint - do you see the need for Faronics Deepfreeze on
> all computer lab vm's? Currently we are using Deepfreeze on our desktops in
> all labs and has worked out great. For this situation, I'm not interested
> in the security implications of why Deepfreeze is bad, just if its
> recommended in a virtual environment.
>
> What are you doing in situations if a user profile gets hosed up with
> malware in this vm enviroment?

Why wouldn't you use the native snapshotting facilities that VMWare 
provides?  The main feature that deepfreeze delivers in the physical 
world is snapshotting and rollback, and that's a feature that VMWare 
delivers out of the box.

Cheers,
Mike Lococo