[Users] Managing Remote Access to Physical Workstations

[Sigbjorn Lie]

Hi,

Then you should still have a look at the Leostream Connection Broker. (www.leostream.com) One of
the latest features we're integration with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / (ovirt). And they
support both Windows and Linux.

They support a wide variety of protocols and flexible configurations as well.


Regards,
Siggi


On Thu, August 2, 2012 15:13, Randall Wood wrote:
> Yes, I have a few of those available. They are nice (when the
> bandwidth is there to support them).
>
> I'm looking for a single broker interface for both physical and
> virtual machines that supports both Windows and Linux.
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Sigbjorn Lie <sigbjorn at nixtra.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----users-bounces at ovirt.org skrev: -----
>>>> Till: Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com>
>>>> Från: Randall Wood
>>>> Sänt av: users-bounces at ovirt.org
>>>> 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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