Jun 11 2008
iForum - Notes on RES Powerfuse
- Challenges
- How do I ensure that users get their own personalised workspace
- How do I ensure that end user productivity impact is minimised during the migration
- How do I deal with some continued use of some local applications
- How do I ensure that my Virtual machines continue to be up to date
- This list of challenges seems to be very RES specific, perhaps that’s not surprising
- The workspace can be modified based on:
- Who you are
- Time of day
- Location
- Whether you have a token
- What is a workspace
- Personalisation, apps desktop, environment, portability, location sensing - with RES this is downloaded just in time
- Seems to require you to manually figure out what needs to be persistent between sessions. if you have 4500 applications that’s a complex job.
- Security, Applications, files and folders, local disks, access to removable drives, IP connections
- seems to be very similar to group policy, but had the benefit of a common set of policies across operating systems. Not sure whether it depends on the client device being domain joined, if not that would be an advantage as well
- more granular than GPO in some areas at least
- nice feature that allows a USB key to be used as a rule that can govern anything else, for example the ability to run a particular application can be linked to the presence or absence of a USB key
- Reliability, logon performance, session, cpu, memory, logoff
- Administration
- delegated admin, building blocks and templates, usage reporting, license metering, analysis and audit
- Integration
- Uses variety of databases
- Integrates with Active Directory
- Workspace integration between apps delivered locally and apps delivered by presentation server or xen desktop
- Runbook automation, using Wisdom - this seems to be a distributed systems management product - simillar to BMC Configuration manager or SCCM
- detects when snapshots are being used, when they are rolled back etc. so that the cmdb maps to the actual configuration of the client, even if a snapshot rollback occurs, it will reapply lost changes.
