When to use thin clients and when to use zero?

Question

System administration

Good afternoon, please tell me when to use a thin client, and when to use a zero one?

We have an entire enterprise, they want to transfer to thin and zero clients. Approximately 200c+ jobs.

Everything on blade servers, as I understand it, they want to do.

- Most employees use office programs (Word, Ex, etc.), + 1s. + small office software
- And a number of employees work in Corel / Photoshop / AutoCAD / Revit.

I am very far from this. But the system administrator suggests doing part of it on thin clients, part on zero clients, and everything on blade servers. All dell solutions. I need an understanding that he is not fooling me. Since if anything, I will have to answer for all the jambs.

Answer 1

I will write theses in defense of thin clients:
1. This is a great option for mass, simple jobs of the same type.
2. Maintaining a bunch of blade servers and backing them up is much nicer than 200+ heterogeneous desktops.
3. You can greatly reduce the number of ordinary enikeis who maintained these 200+ machines in working order. In thin clients, there is nothing special to break, requests should become much less.
4. Employees can be transferred to remote work with near-zero time.
5. If a thin client breaks down, the employee simply changes to another free client and continues to work with his environment and all his files.
6. In 1C, you can get a very good performance boost if both the databases and clients are located on the same server or in a cluster.
7. If you say that old computers are already very noisy and almost all of them have been written off, then you really need to update a large fleet of equipment and buying thin clients will be more cost-effective than buying new desktops.
Now about the oddities of your particular decision:
In my opinion, the transition to thin clients should be cost-effective. However, you point out that 90 thousand rubles have been allocated for equipment for 1 workplace, which, in my opinion, is too much.
Plus, this binding is to one vendor (in your case, to dell).
This is very much like cutting budgets and kickbacks.

Answer 2

Ask for a test drive. I have a Dell thin client on the farm, I accidentally strayed. Lying around in the pantry, I have not found application in the home infrastructure.

Answer 3

Most employees use office programs (Word, Ex, etc.), + 1s. + small office software

for them, you can switch to cloud solutions, everything except 1C is generally in the browser, but 1C is from the server.

And a number of employees work in Corel / Photoshop / AutoCAD / Revit.

and here problems can arise with any remote solutions, you need to understand more specifically, test whether everything will work no worse than locally.