Soldato
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Hi all,
I'm about to open a huge can of worms here
My client is struggling to keep their client machines on the 5 yearly refresh cycle. They are getting behind and it's been estimated that they will require around £1 million to refresh properly.
They are trying to balance the books and look into alternatives to reduce cost, whilst keeping up to date and current.
Even if they manage to secure funding, this problem never goes away and in another five years they will be back to square one.
There is an RDS platform in place which works well for general office type applications, however thousands of users require rich multimedia. This is where the can of worms comes in.
Ideally we need to build a new RDS platform (perhaps in 2016 using Server 2016) and buy in thin client terminals.
So.....there doesn't seem to be a good way of delivering multimedia.
RemoteFX just isn't there, and it's heavily dependant on codec identification which kicks in well after video playback.
Nvidia Grid. Expensive and generates a lot of heat. The back end platform gpu grunt is user based (ie: 30 users for one quad core gpu). When we scale this out to 4,000 users that's a lot of graphics cards.
The holy grail is buying in a terminal which has a graphics card on-board, but how on earth do we reference the local graphics over RDP.
I know there are companies who looked into a software solution which sits over RDP but I heard it's messy and very hit and miss
Has anyone undertaken a project like this?
The company doesn't mind spending money if they can see a ROI over 5 years and beyond
Thanks
I'm about to open a huge can of worms here
My client is struggling to keep their client machines on the 5 yearly refresh cycle. They are getting behind and it's been estimated that they will require around £1 million to refresh properly.
They are trying to balance the books and look into alternatives to reduce cost, whilst keeping up to date and current.
Even if they manage to secure funding, this problem never goes away and in another five years they will be back to square one.
There is an RDS platform in place which works well for general office type applications, however thousands of users require rich multimedia. This is where the can of worms comes in.
Ideally we need to build a new RDS platform (perhaps in 2016 using Server 2016) and buy in thin client terminals.
So.....there doesn't seem to be a good way of delivering multimedia.
RemoteFX just isn't there, and it's heavily dependant on codec identification which kicks in well after video playback.
Nvidia Grid. Expensive and generates a lot of heat. The back end platform gpu grunt is user based (ie: 30 users for one quad core gpu). When we scale this out to 4,000 users that's a lot of graphics cards.
The holy grail is buying in a terminal which has a graphics card on-board, but how on earth do we reference the local graphics over RDP.
I know there are companies who looked into a software solution which sits over RDP but I heard it's messy and very hit and miss
Has anyone undertaken a project like this?
The company doesn't mind spending money if they can see a ROI over 5 years and beyond
Thanks
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