Thin Clients are light endpoint devices that do not perform any computer process inside the device; its operations are based on a network connection to the data center, where the virtual desktop is hosted.
When we consider the use of these devices for VDI, there are many things to take into account: What features do I need? How can I manage them? Do I really need a thin client?
DBigCloud blog, which focuses in virtualization, cloud computing, Big Data, operating systems and data bases analyzes this week the VDI solution UDS Enterprise in one of the articles they published.
The author of this post, system administrator and vExpert, outlines the functionalities of this connection broker for Windows and Linux and its support of the main hypervisors (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat KVM, oVirt KVM) authenticators (Active Directory, LDAP, OpenLDAP, eDirectory, SAML, CAS) and connection protocols in the market (RDP, RGS, XRDP, NX, Spice).
Moreover, he shows and explains the software administration dashboard. You can read the article and see screenshots od the system here: UDS Enterprise – more than a VDI solution
CentOS Linux distro is now available for ARM64 architecture, thus CentOS-7 disk image for AArch64 platforms are available for download.
This disk image intended to help hardware vendors and enthusiasts who are interested in bringing CentOS to their AArch64 based platform. This allows a vendor to bypass the installer or to edit the disk image before booting in order to test kernel modules or options.
UDS Enterprise fully integrates with VMware vSphere 5 onwards.
UDS Enterprise components are offered in Virtual Appliance format and they are hosted on the vSphere platform on which the virtual desktops are going to be deployed.
The integration process is very easy, you can check it reading this presentation:
The OpenStack Foundation in collaboration with the Linux Foundation will roll out early next year the first OpenStack official certifications.
In this way, those working with these Open Source cloud techologies will be able to validate and certify their professional skills with official certifications, sitting for the online tests which will be available for users.
