Scenario: A Citrix Administrator must provide a new application to 50 users and wants to use the most cost-effective application delivery method. These users perform well-defined tasks and do NOT…

Persistent virtual desktops allocate a dedicated VM per user, making them the most costly option and unnecessary when personalization is not required.

Hosted Server OS machines (formerly XenApp) run a multi-user server OS where many users share the same machine concurrently, dramatically reducing infrastructure costs compared to one VM per user - this model is ideal when users perform standardized tasks and have no need for personal desktops or offline capability.

Virtual machine hosted apps still require dedicated or pooled VMs with hypervisor overhead per session, making them less cost-effective than shared Server OS delivery for this use case.

Locally streamed virtual hard disks require client-side hardware capable of running a VHD and are designed for offline use - adding complexity and cost that the scenario explicitly does not need.