A little late (and a little off topic) but I spent last week with a 1:1 with Wyse and their VDI solution.  (VDI is a nifty innovation called Virtual Desktop Infrastructure from VMware)

Wyse gave me both a S10-VDI and a V90 (in a snazzy little carry case) with NFR copies of both their streaming server and connection broker server.  The two aren’t really related, but are in a similar space - so I spent a fair bit of time on both anyway.  :)

Anyway, some quick points of note for VDI are:

  • You need some flavour of a VMware Server product with Virtual Center
  • You need the LeoStream Server Software (called the Connection Broker) to “Round Robin” the connections to available Desktop VMs, and to create new desktop VMs when the existing pool is full.
  • The connection broker setup was straight forward, done via a browser
  • There were a variety of options/policies for defining what VMs a user could connect to
  • Your WYSE terminals will naturally need to support VDI, so we used the S10-VDI

Once everything was together, it all just worked.  You powered up a thin client, connected to a workstation hosted within a VM, and could use and abuse the workstation as you saw fit.

I think that was everything?  I was pretty happy with everything I just saw.  When time permits I’ll post some screenshots or even a blogcast.