Last year I shared a free load balancer virtual appliance for VMware View that I created on SuSE Studio. The load balancer uses HAProxy and came with a very basic configuration for use with VMware Horizon View Connection Servers or Security Servers. The appliance has been downloaded a few hundred times and has been useful to me in my own home lab. Since publishing the appliance I have made several changes to the configuration and thought I would share those updates. You can download the latest version of the appliance in OVF format here: … [Read more...]
Planning for PCoIP on the Network
PC-over-IP is a purpose-built desktop remoting protocol designed to adapt to network conditions to deliver the best desktop experience possible. PCoIP renders desktop video, pixel by pixel, to the endpoint (thin client, zero client, Windows client, etc.), while receiving keyboard, mouse, and other peripheral device data (audio, USB) on the datacenter-hosted desktop. The UDP-based protocol uses a combination of codecs (graphics, text, icons, photographs, video, PDF), combined with compression and intelligent encoding, to deliver a lossless virtual desktop experience. Planning for PCoIP … [Read more...]