VMware & Unidesk Customer Webinar: Menlo College
From May 11, 2011 webinar
Watch recording, view presentation slides and read Q&A:
- Did Menlo College have any laptop users that were converted?
- Did you do the migration to VDI in one shot or was it done smoothly over time and how did the users react?
- Did you need to do any network upgrades to support video?
- Do I add the layer to the "Image" or all the VMs?
- Do the Pano units use the View connection broker? If not, is it complicated to manage multiple connection brokers?
- Have you tested streaming media from the Internet inward, such as for various courses, perhaps Video on Demand?
- How are you funding MS Windows licenses for VDI use and MS Office licenses? What are these costs?
- How did you choose your zero clients?
- How do you repurpose the old desktops? What software was used for the thick client?
- I noticed that you had considerable savings from staff labor costs. Did you reduce workforce or reassign to other tasks?
- If I use Unidesk, is there any advantage to VMware ThinApp?
- Instead of using desktop icons can you set all the icons in a toolbar like the quick launch toolbar?
- Is access to admin ERP server allowed from off campus home locations? Is authentication through AD for all including students?
- Is your VDI server environment separate from your server VM environment?
- Since you aren't using a SAN, how do you handle redundancy if a server (ESX host) goes down? How many servers do you have?
- So, how can we integrate laptops into this approach or do we have to maintain our current "ghost-prism" approach in parallel?
- Was initial investment in VDI very costly?
- What client operating systems work with Unidesk?
- What is the server farm infrastructure? Number of servers, storage arrays, blade-vs-non blade servers?
- You mentioned that you have ~ 50 virtual desktops / server. What type of server are you using and what is the server configuration in terms of CPU and RAM?

