[lopsa-tech] VDI

2016-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
Suppose you have a mac (or a bunch of people using macs) and you want to have windows too. Option 1 is to use vmware/parallels/virtualbox, and run the windows VM inside the mac. The problem here is forcing the need for expensive mac upgrades in cpu, memory, and disk space, and then there are no

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

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 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,