FW: [Web4lib] Thin clients in training rooms

[Robin]

Bill, this is the reply I got from my network admin who's spent the last
year getting us ready to go with thin client. Hope it helps.
Robin

Robin Boulton  
IT Manager
St. Charles Public Library District
St. Charles, IL 60174
(630) 584 0076 x 258  
Cell:(630) 918 8738 
http://www.stcharleslibrary.org/
robin at stcharleslibrary.org



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bumpas 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 9:29 AM
To: Robin
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Thin clients in training rooms

This is a complicated question, although I personally don't believe a
hypervisor-based solution is appropriate for most VDI projects (which is
why we went with Parallels Virtuozzo).  If you just need a persistent
image, and your thin clients are actually PCs that meet your processing
needs, then the easiest thing to do is look into Citrix Provisioning
Services.  $125/seat, 1 image to manage.  Otherwise, check out
Parallels/Quest's VDI offering, possibly combined with Citrix PVS for
easier desktop management (that's our model).

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 8:37 AM
To: Steve Bumpas
Subject: FW: [Web4lib] Thin clients in training rooms

Steve, would you take a few minutes to respond to this, give him a few
ideas based on your work and experience to date?

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Bill Hudson
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 8:27 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Thin clients in training rooms

Greetings all,
We have 18 buildings where everyone wants to have some sort of PC
training facilities. A few have dedicated training rooms, while a few
others use laptops in an all-purpose rooms on demand. Other libraries
just don't have the funds for laptops to be used for training. On top of
that, maintaining laptops is more work than always connected desktops
and the thought of adding another 50/60 laptops to our infrastructure
really doesn't appeal to me.

To solve some of these problems and reduce per site licensing and
maintenance costs, we are toying with the idea of using thin clients for
training, with a Citrix or VMware backend. If you've used thin clients
in a training environment, particularly with computer neophytes, I'd be
really interested in hearing about your experiences.
Thanks,
BH

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Bill Hudson
Deputy Administrator/Manager, Information Technology
Library System of Lancaster County
1866 Colonial Village Lane, Ste. 107
Lancaster, PA  17601
717-207-0500 ext. 1269
http://www.lancasterlibraries.org<http://www.lancasterlibraries.org/>


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