That is the key here; to create a system that would be cheap and reliable. Could this be achieved using consumer hardware?
AMD has just released their 6-core Phenom II processors. Utilizing these cheap and powerful CPUs, I believe I could build a server powerful enough to meet the requirements for a small desktop virutalization deployment.
Combine one of these CPUs with 8GB of ram, 2x1TB hard drives in Raid, and a shuttle barebones case and you have a small desktop virtualization server for less than $1000 in hardware. At that price point, it wouldn't be a big deal to add additional servers for greater capacity and redundancy.
My next step is to build a prototype for testing.
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