Hyper-V with Multiple Windows 7 Workstations versus RDS

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user.
So I started wondering if Hyper-V would be a better solution. Essentially I would add a new virtual Windows 7 workstation for each remote user they need and log in to each to configure a traditional W7 remote desktop setup. All of which would be going across
a 3 site vpn tunnel. So this would give the user a W7 environment versus a server OS but I have a few questions:
Would the Hyper-V setup in this way be more resource intensive on the server and the lan/wan?
It seems that their would be a significant amount of additional configuration time to get the Hyper-V working because I would have to login to each one and join it to the domain, create AD users, install the EMR software, configure remote desktop, open firewall
ports, set static ip's, etc...
Cost wise, it seems like for the Hyper-V I would simply need a windows license and a standard office 2013 home and business license for each virtual Windows 7.
Please give me thoughts and suggestions regarding this setup. Any help is appreciated.

"Would the Hyper-V setup in this way be more resource intensive on the server"
Remember that each virtual machine includes a full installation of the operating system. Therefore, you have to buy a license to cover each VM, you are loading the operating system and the application into the memory of the virtualization host, and
you are storing the full installation for each VM. (There are ways to ameliorate this, but to easily do that also requires additional software and services). That and the additional management overhead you describe, though there should be no reason
to require static IP addresses. And don't forget that you are patching a lot more software, too.
This discussion has been going on ever since the advent of operating system virtualization. It has been proven over and over again that fewer resources are required for a RDS deployment of applications, but different organizations have different business
needs so a virtual desktop versus a virtual application makes sense. There is no simple answer.
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