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I just wish getting "good" VDI at a small scale to leverage a small fleet (say, 3-4) of thin clients was easy. VMware Horizon requires /massive/ amounts of res
by kotaKat 3y ago
I just wish getting "good" VDI at a small scale to leverage a small fleet (say, 3-4) of thin clients was easy.
VMware Horizon requires /massive/ amounts of resources on its own (something like 14-20 GB of RAM for the required services VMs alone), Citrix is a nightmare all its own, and I'm not sure how what else would work well out there.
- zamadatix 3y agoThe RDP based ones are pretty straightforward to get going without a massive base infrastructure. Even with the intended way of running Windows Server as the host you can easily have 3-4 clients run on one meager server with no need for a managing VMs at all, unless you really want to do it that way. On the Linux side I use persistent systemd-nspawn containers with bind mount access to the main storage. I suppose it's possible to do the same thing there, though I've never tried.
- whalesalad 3y agoproxmox can support vdi infra
- rkeene2 3y agoI actually built this using my on-premises cloud platform in the past [0]. It was using Service Templates from OpenNebula, and would automatically scale the VMs based on number of users, setup the load balancer, acquire an TLS certificate, etc. Once you have OpenNebula running (which is really easy), developing the re-usable VDI system took me about a week. [0] https://rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/vdi-service-template.png.htm https://rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/vdi-service-template.png.htm