Re: [lopsa-tech] VDI

2016-03-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
Thanks for all the responses so far. I'm replying in one big reply, instead of individual replies, because people are kind-of saying the same things, so a single reply will suffice. I realized what I really want is ZFS on osx, but since the death of zevo and greenbytes, I've outruled that optio

Re: [lopsa-tech] VDI

2016-03-27 Thread Danielle White
I'll second this. Though it's not for reason of being a Mac user most of my work is in a VDI. We host installs of my employer's software for customers, which means access to their data, and enforcing two-factor was a requirement, with VDI being one of the most functional ways to do so. As a res

Re: [lopsa-tech] VDI

2016-03-26 Thread Jason Barbier
Honestly unless you are doing heavy graphics RDP is nice now-a-days. At work we have a vmware cluster that hosts vms for access to sensitive data. Then we access that via VPN and RDP. -- Jason Barbier | E: jab...@serversave.us GPG Key-ID: B5F75B47(http://kusuriya.devio.us/pubkey.asc) On Sat,

Re: [lopsa-tech] VDI

2016-03-26 Thread Debapriya Biswas
hi, you can look into VMWare Horizon View - https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/view/VMware-Horizon-View-Datasheet.pdf http://whychoosevmwareeuc.com/ With VMWare Horizon View, you can access the Windows VM via an VMWare View Client or web browser interface. It also supports port redirection for USB,

Re: [lopsa-tech] VDI

2016-03-26 Thread levins...@gmail.com
I don't know too much about this, but I use a Mac at work and we have a Citrix VDI farm. When I need something Windows specific like Visio or IE, I launch the portal and click the app icon, and the Windows app opens like any other window on my Mac desktop. The only trick seems to be that file a