[ovirt-users] VDI experience to share?

[Ondra Machacek]

On 06/15/2016 12:26 PM, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
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>> On 15 Jun 2016, at 12:18, Giorgio Bersano <giorgio.bersano at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> if that client can still be a PC, albeit diskless, it’s still easier and probably cheaper than any other special hw.
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>> 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?
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> 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
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>> 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.
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> 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?
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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.

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>> TIA,
>> Giorgio.
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