When and where to use stateful or stateless desktops is a decision made based onbusiness requirements and intended business use case.
Stateful Desktops
Stateful or persistent desktops treat like any other physical desktops. It creates a unique operating system image and keeps for each user.
Stateful desktops require backing up, updates, applications installed like any other physical desktop. Stateful desktops consume more storage than stateless desktops as well.
Stateless Desktops
Stateless desktops also called nonpersistent desktops, do not retain personal information.
They provide many advantages over stateful. These benefits include lower storage cost, easier to maintain or upgrade and patch, no need to back up the virtual desktops as they are normally destroyed when the user logs off.
The primary benefit of the stateless desktop approach is that it requires less storage.
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