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Our Pano Logic units have arrived
16 Jan2009
As a followup to my previous posts about thin clients and our research, we made a first step into the virtual desktop arena. We purchased 55 Pano Logic units just before end of last year. They arrived and have been safely stored away while we work out the rest of our implementation plans. This is just our first step at HTC and we see the potential of choosing one or maybe two more solutions which meet our needs in other areas. We are unsure how the Pano units will work in our business offices. Our initial roll out will be in our central offices and we may expand upon that.
We still need to complete the backend infrastructure to handle our roll out. We are making decisions now whether to locate our initial virtual desktop pools with our other virtual servers in the same cluster, or whether to deploy a new cluster. We also have to look at DHCP for our entire network, as our current solution does not appear to be able to hand out the additional directives to the Pano devices. I hope to be able to do a more detailed entry about the whole process once we get further down the road.
- In: Virtualization|VMware
- Tags: Pano, Pano Logic, virtual desktop, VMware
4 Responses to Our Pano Logic units have arrived
Tech Talk » Blog Archive » VMware View implemented
March 5th, 2009 at 11:08 am
[...] conference call. We evaluated and chose to implement VMware View to support the purchase of 50 Pano Logic thin client devices that we purchased end-of-year. The VMware View licensing model made more [...]
ITProfis
January 21st, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Interested in your experiences.
But why you wanna use View ?
Think the PanoDAS service together with the Panomgrsrv makes the connection to the Pano device not the view stuff.
ITP
Philip
January 21st, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Experiences has been largely good. We tried deploying them on T1 connections and the performance was not as good. We realized ahead of time that it may not work since its advertised as a LAN solution. Citrix apps within the Pano sometimes look choppy when paging through the application, but its very usable performance.
We went with View for two reasons:
1) View is advantageous from a licensing perspective to us. We didn’t want to mix our desktop VM’s onto our server VM cluster. It was much less costly to purchase View licensing for 30 VM’s and have two ESX hosts than to pay for two full ESX host license.
2) We expected that Pano would fit some of our business needs but not all. We plan on deploying other end-point devices and possibly experimenting with View for offline laptops use.
I agree, though, View is by no means a requirement. It worked in our particular case.
Donald
April 9th, 2010 at 10:03 am
ProSync Technology Group has been working with Pano Logic for years now. If you find that you are not getting the answers you are looking for via the web look us up at http://www.prosync.com any of our VCP and PANO experts may have solved your issues already.
Be well
Don