Scenario: CGE decided to virtualize its infrastructure workloads and provide a virtual solution to all end users. The infrastructure workloads include Delivery Controllers, StoreFront servers…

While Streamed VHD-provisioned machines use local client hardware for execution, the primary benefit of the *streaming* aspect is image management and hardware abstraction, not just leveraging local hardware, which all local execution models do.

Streamed VHD is often used for non-persistent desktops, which typically limits the level of end-user personalization unless robust profile management solutions are in place.

Streamed VHD, as implemented by Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS), delivers a single master virtual disk image to various target devices, allowing that image to boot and run on different hardware types (physical or virtual) due to its hardware abstraction capabilities.

Allowing remote access to applications is a general benefit of virtualization and VDI solutions, not a unique or primary benefit distinguishing Streamed VHD from other provisioning methods.