Multi-user Graphical and SSH Sessions on Horizon for Linux

[Perttu]

Hi!

We would like VMware to develop a single-vm multi-user Horizon for Linux functionality similar to RDS sessions. This should be also able to manage SSH connections in both of Horizon per user licensing view and manageability as some of our users would favour terminal ssh connections over graphical Horizon Client connections. Currently we need to run our SSH terminal servers on the ordinary vSphere cluster (one with the CPU based 'for any workload' vSphere licenses) and single-user graphical VDI Linuxes on our Horizon vSphere Cluster (licensed through Horizon Suite and by user count) both being managed by different vCenters. It would help by means of load distribution to put all this kind of interactive activity into one pool of ESXi servers and into the precisely same virtual machines licensed by user count.  A really superb product would be even having a AP/Connection server brokered SSH connections and HTML5 SSH console.

Just some of my thoughts. Enjoy.

Perttu

[txiong]

Thanks for your suggestion, Perttu.

For the feature request, please contact the sales / support to update to Product Manager.

[Perttu]

Hi Txiong

Maybe you could point them to read this community. Another quite a urgent wish: We are having 1,5 k Ubuntu Linux OS's around the campuses and it's a pain to deliver the newest HV 4.4 Client on these machines due to dependencies to obsolete libraries as libudev.so.0 and libffi.so.5 in Horizon Client installer bundle.

Are there any plans to deliver a proper .deb package in Ubuntu Software Center now and in future? This has been done before but it is a old 3.x client and only available in older Ubuntu LTS 12.04 repositories.  

[txiong]

Thank you, Perttu.

1. Yes, I will forward your LinuxVDI requirement to PM.

2. For the Linux client issue, I will also ask owner to answer.

[helenzhang]

Hi Perttu,

Currently user still need to manually install package for libudev.so.0 and libffi.so.5 according to our guide. And the requirement for package in Ubuntu Software Center is also forwarded to Product Manager. Would update it once get update.

Thanks,

Helena