[ovirt-users] VDI experience to share?

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 15 Jun 2016, at 12:18, Giorgio Bersano <giorgio.bersano at gmail.com> 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?

> 
> TIA,
> Giorgio.
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