Re: VCL: warnings for reservation timeout?

2012-07-06 Thread Henry Schaffer
There is a warning, or a couple of them - from the FAQ. You will receive warnings at 10 minutes and 5 minutes before your reservation expires. IIRC, you can choose the type of notification, e.g. e-mail or ... I think you need to set this in User Preferences (which I don't remember how to access.

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduation - Prepare Board Resolution

2012-05-31 Thread Henry Schaffer
... will propose it on the general incubator list.  The areas we need to work on are in bold.  We need to define the project description and scope.  I wrote this as dynamically provisioning and brokering remote access to compute resources.  Thoughts? I'm not sure I would not really

Re: Other Uses for VCL

2012-05-10 Thread Henry Schaffer
Andy mentioned the VCL running Elluminate Live in one context - we also are using the VCL with Elluminate in a Disaster Recovery mode in an interesting way. If the campus is closed for any reason [insert any disaster scenario here] and it is desired to continue teaching face to face courses

Re: Issues with VCL

2012-04-30 Thread Henry Schaffer
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Aaron Peeler fapee...@ncsu.edu wrote: Also You'll need to look at using Dojo 1.6 ... Before the move to using Dojo ( http://dojotoolkit.org/ ) the bar charts on the Statistics page weren't accessible to screen readers. Using Dojo fixes that, and that is a real

Re: Long term reservation

2012-04-27 Thread Henry Schaffer
A general comment from someone who has watched the process and seen some testing and failures. This is a bottleneck type problem - the major resources are 1) RAM - used for the VM manager/host and then for the images (which can vary in size) 2) processors/cores- i.e. computer horsepower 3)

Re: Thin client with VCL

2012-04-10 Thread Henry Schaffer
. The VCL is a desktop augmentation setup - so you likely want to use the local machines for web surfing, e-mail, perhaps word processing ..., what else. That decision impacts the price of the thin client. --henry schaffer On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Michael Jinks mji...@uchicago.edu wrote: Several

Re: Permanent reservations ?

2012-03-14 Thread Henry Schaffer
never end - well, sometime before never there will be a hardware failure, or whatever - and that will have to be dealt with. What I find that works for me for an indefinite reservation is to make it for 1 year. It's easy to Delete it when I'm done, or to extend it, if needed. (Hmm - I've never

Re: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Henry Schaffer
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Andy Kurth andy_ku...@ncsu.edu wrote: Just FYI, the same issues apply to VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, etc. -Andy ... Andy is right - I'm buying VDI software from VMware/Citrix/other vendor. Do I still need Windows VDA? Yes, you do. If you are accessing a