[Users] Managing Remote Access to Physical Workstations

[Sigbjorn Lie]

Hi,

Have you looked at Teradici PCoIP? They have a hardware solution based on a PCIe card in the host
machine, and a PCoIP thin client. The performance is stunning. You don't even notice that you're
connected to a thin client. I'm using this on a daily basis myself.

To get a broker you can use Leostream's Connection Broker which supports Teradici PCoIP both for
Windows and Linux.

You will be needing the thin client when connecting. I don't think you can use a software client
to connect to the physical machines. You can ask Leostream about this.

See the following youtube video for more info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjhAHDQZ7E

This solution is for physical machines, not virtual machines.


Regards,
Siggi




On Thu, August 2, 2012 14:44, Randall Wood wrote:
> Sorry for the delay in responding.
>
>
> I have a set of users (about 50) who have Linux workstations at their
> desks. These users have root access to these workstations, and these workstations are frequently
> host VMs or are used for hardware driver development and support. These users have access to a
> pool of managed Windows 7 VMs (for MS Office applications) in oVirt, so they are
> already using the oVirt user portal. I would like to give these users remote access to their
> workstations (from thin clients in conference rooms, from home, from corporate laptops on the
> road, etc) using the same User Portal that they already use for the Windows VMs.
>
> VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop support providing users access to a
> mixed set of managed-virtual-machine or unmanaged-physical-or-virtual-machine through a single
> broker, but neither of them support access to Linux desktops.
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Johan Kragsterman
> <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Randall!
>>
>>
>> What you need is a "broker", and a terminal server is working as a "broker". There are several
>> solutions that will work, but first I would want to know why you need physical machines? Are
>> there demanding graphical applications you're going to run, or...?
>>
>> Rgrds Johan
>>
>>
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>> Till: Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com>
>> Från: Randall Wood
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>> Datum: 2012.07.20 22:37
>> Kopia: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Ärende: Re: [Users] Managing Remote Access to Physical Workstations
>>
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2012, at 16:30, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 07/20/2012 11:13 PM, Randall Wood wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> No. oVirt's focus is virtual machines so the user portal only lets you open up consoles
>>>>> on VMs managed by oVirt engine.
>>>>
>>>> I thought so.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> When you say physical machines - would they be Linux or could they be Windows?
>>>>> I might have an idea ......
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The physical machines would all be RHEL, CentOS, or Fedora.
>>>>
>>>
>>> which protocol would you expect users to use to gain access to this physical machines?
>>
>> I would prefer SPICE, but could use SPICE, VNC, or RDP.
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