FreeIPA would be ideal for user management if don't already have an alternative. You could have a minimal install and use KVM/libvirt for the local VMs
Gnome Boxes could be the interface for VMs https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-win10-in-gnome-boxes https://fedoramagazine.org/download-os-gnome-boxes/ You could use katello/foreman ManageIQ to provision the baremetal machines as well the libvirt provider. You could sell/donate the desktop PCs and replace them servers/thin clients. Regards, Paul S. ________________________________________ From: Tony Brian Albers <[email protected]> Sent: 01 November 2018 05:45 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: Desktops as Nodes and Client? On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 22:17 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm starting to look at oVirt to help with a datacentre consolidation > project to drastically reduce the number of physical servers and it > seems like a great fit. > > As an added bonus, it looks like it might help solve some desktop > management challenges we have. Since the desktop PCs are reasonably > powerful, what I would ideally like is for them to be nodes, each > capable of running a single templated VM accessed by the local user. > > I can only seem to find documentation relating to standard VDI, i.e > thin clients and fat servers. As I'm trying to reduce the number of > servers, this is not ideal. > > Does anyone know of a similar setup or can provide some pointers? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/communit > y-guidelines/ > List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/ > message/OXPT73W2MFBJN3FSOJH425AR62467L2L/ What about just using something like SpaceWalk for management and FreeIPA for user management? You're not supposed to use a oVirt node as a workstation IIRC. /tony -- Tony Albers Systems Architect Systems Director, National Cultural Heritage Cluster Royal Danish Library, Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Tel: +45 2566 2383 / +45 8946 2316 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/347VHMGP3PEHEY2VOSYEDKOAGKNXE6ND/ To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to:- http://disclaimer.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/disclaimer/disclaimer.html _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/X5ZTAITAG4BTSO36QK4O6VMPUCML6RYV/
