VDI solution for Proxmox?

[Funar]

I posted this over on /r/Proxmox as well.

The organization I work at where I'm the Director of IT is heavily invested in VMware Horizon View - we have 14 Dell servers with dual EPYC CPUs and 3 datacenter class Nvidia GPUs with GRID vGPU licenses in each server. We host, on average, 200 simultaneous VDI sessions.

We license the VDI cluster using VMware's previous "desktop host" licenses. Broadcom reached out to us about license renewals and came back with a quote that was SIX TIMES higher than last year. Plus, with their recent announcement concerning Horizon's future (or lack thereof), we're looking for other options.

Our primary server virtualization platform has been on Proxmox for about 5 years now with CEPH backend storage (we love 45Drives too). Are there any realistic options for VDI on Proxmox available that supports HTML5-based connectivity to GPU powered virtual desktops?

We have the budget...just not at a 6x premium...insanity.

 

[gurubert]

AFAIK there is not much readily available.
We are using the Apache Guacamole project to serve remote desktops via HTML5: https://guacamole.apache.org/

But this is just the frontend. You have to managed the desktop VMs with your own solution (Terraform, Proxmox API, Ansible).

 

[bbgeek17]

We've had customers use FlexVDI, but I dont have first hand experience with it. It is also not directly integrated with PVE and needs to be managed on its own.

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Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

 

[gurubert]

FlexVDI is out of business: https://blog.flexvdi.com/2023/10/11/this-is-our-stop/

 

[bbgeek17]

FlexVDI is out of business: https://blog.flexvdi.com/2023/10/11/this-is-our-stop/

Doh... Thanks for pointing it out!

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Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

 

[Dunuin]

FlexVDI is out of business: https://blog.flexvdi.com/2023/10/11/this-is-our-stop/

Really a shame with SPICE without a good replacement.

 

[tom]

See also https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/vdi-options-post-vmware-roadmap-decisions.139233/

 

[VinceMulhollon]

KASM Workspaces aka kasmweb.com has been on my to-do list to experiment with for a long time.
The free version is limited to five users for experimentation purposes.