Re: [ovirt-users] VDI experience to share?

On 06/15/2016 12:26 PM, Michal Skrivanek wrote: > > >> On 15 Jun 2016, at 12:18, Giorgio Bersano <giorgio.bersano(a)gmail.com&gt; >> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> I've been asked to deploy a VDI solution based on our oVirt >> infrastructure. >> What we have in production is a 3.6 manager (standalone, not HE) with >> a 3.5 cluster (CentOS 6) and a 3.6 cluster (CentOS 7), iSCSI storage, >> fully redundant networking. >> >> What is not clear to me is the client side, especially because we have >> been asked to implement a thin client solution but I've been almost >> unable to find suitable devices. > > > if that client can still be a PC, albeit diskless, it’s still easier and > probably cheaper than any other special hw. > >> >> Is there anyone in this list willing to share his/her experience on >> this topic? Probably my search skill is low but I've only seen >> references to IGEL. Other brands? > > > not that i know of, and even that one had (or still have?) some issues > with SPICE performance as it’s not kept up to date > >> There is another strong requirement: our network infrastructure makes >> use of 802.1x to authenticate client devices and it would be highly >> advisable to respect that constraint. > > > for the VDI connections? I don’t think SPICE supports that, but please > bring it up on spice list to make sure. > if it would be for oVirt user portal then, I guess with pluggable aaa we > can support anything. Ondro? > It depends on use case, if apache module which uses radius is ok, then yes it should work. The problem is that we currently support only ldap as authorization backend.