Does anyone here use Horizon for connecting to physical desktops - i.e. a user's 'normal' office desktop?
Aside from the typical 'VDI' / floating pool use cases for Horizon, we have a use case for leveraging the connection servers and UAG's to provide secure access to user's physical desktop in their office.
I'm sure I've done this before with older versions of Horizon using PCoIP with success. Simply install the agent on the physical desktop, register it with the connection server, configure it in a pool with dedicated assignment and you're done, simple connectivity back to a user's normal desktop. Much better than allowing users to RDP back to their physical machine from a VDI or RDSH session, which some users seem to want to do in our org.
Horizon documentation states that the blast protocol is not supported on physical endpoints, unless it's an RDSH server - not sure why this is the case, but whatever... However I still have no luck with PCoIP or RDP. When connecting I can see the logon event happening on the physical machine, but with all the protocols I've tried (blast, pciop, rdp), I just end up with a black screen and eventually disconnects / times out after a short period. Firewall logs showing all the traffic is allowed - no denies etc, so was stumped.
I contacted VMware support who have told me that it's not possible to use Horizon in this way unless you have physical Teradici / PCoIP cards installed in the machine? Can't understand why this would be the case, and I'm sure I've been able to do this in the past with older versions in previous places.
Anyone have experiences to share?
