Hello Clouders, i'm planning a infrastructure setup for a quite large software development project. developer workstations have to be virtual desktops for many different reasons. the development infrastructure (database, ticket, domain, kerberos, mail, print, middleware, clients, net, storage, build, test, versioning, and so on) must be able to grow fast and be flexible. I had a look at different software like: Ovirt, Citrix XenDesktop, OpenStack, Opennebula, OSDTV.. and perhaps some more i have already forgotten. Nothing seems to bring VDI and IaaS really together. of course i know that it's possible to setup Citrix for VDI and some IaaS platform for the rest but i already have quite a big bag of software, servers, technology to manage and don't want to put another thing on top. What comes closest seems to be Citrix XenDesktop but this will get very expensive and i'm not a big fan of closed source.
So, my question, does anyone have experience with something like this ? how do you solve similar problems ?
