ProjectAvalon looks interesting. It's quite magic and marketing bloatet at the moment. i was not able to find some hard technical facts or something. i will download the beta and hear what the citrix salesman can tell about this. thank you.
vcl has something similar to vdi but it's not the same. i have to think about it, if i can accept this. In the end in does not seem mature enough for my purpose. 2013/3/27 David Nalley <[email protected]> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Jan Lambertz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 ? > > Look at VCL (http://vcl.apache.org) > It does a good chunk of what you want, and one of the VCL committers > was recently looking at adding CloudStack support. > > --David >
