There is no good accessible solution yet for virtual desktops is there? What’s the state of that?
On Feb 21, 2017, at 2:25 PM, Billy Irwin <billy.irwin@outlook.com> wrote:
Ryan,
Just curious.... How long ago was that? I would expect that it is getting better because of the trend of having VDI... BTW, I am not a big fan of VDI since it is what put me out of a job.... LOL.
Thanks,
Billy
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine M. Moss Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:58 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
I have to say, that's some crazy stats right there ...
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart via Blind-sysadmins Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:23 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Ryan Shugart <ryshugar@microsoft.com> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
Where I used to work, we actually began a migration from ESXI to Xen Server due to VMWare's outrageous licensing at the time, I believe this is when they were trying to license by amount of RAM or similar, it was a while ago. Anyway, we actually migrated most of our VDI environment at the time over to Xen Server, (we were using Citrix Xen Desktop anyway so it made sense) and ended up running into so many problems we eventually had to migrate the Xen Server hosts back to ESXI. We still used Xen Desktop for the VDI controller just on top of ESXI. We had Xen Server hosts lock up all the time, individual VMs freeze, etc. I believe in the end even Citrix said that ESXI was a better solution for what we were trying to do than their own Xen Server solution. I will say we had some different requirements since we had to get 3D video across the VDI environment, when I left that was actually working well in ESXI so perhaps that's something Xen just can't handle. Don't know, but just wanted to put my experience out there. Ryan
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine M. Moss Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 5:19 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
I wonder why venders such as Dell, for instance, have dropped support for XenServer? I know they did recently; I think in 13th generation PowerEdge.
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Billy Irwin Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 8:13 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
Greetings,
So far, I am happy with XenServer. I use KVM coupled with SolusVM in my web hosting business. KVM uses the command line unless you provide a GUI for it. Xenserver has a bit of a learning curve but is very similar to ESXI. The biggest pain is getting stuck in the console windows and trying to get back out of it. JAWS seems to read most everything else. Obviously I had to have someone visually read the server setup screens but it is quick and easy to get it up and running. The setup process reminds me of the Red Hat setup process. Looks and feels exactly like it.
Thanks,
Billy
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of mattias jonsson Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 7:57 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
so are it xen or kvm for accessibility?
På 21 februari 2017 13:32:45 "Katherine M. Moss" <KMoss@winterhillsolutions.com> skrev:
One of the reasons why I personally don't advise VMware that much; in a business environment of which I've got no control, that's one thing, for for anything else, stay away from it if I were you.
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart via Blind-sysadmins Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 10:16 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Ryan Shugart <ryshugar@microsoft.com> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
True, I forgot about PowerCLI. I used it quite a bit to manage ESXI, the problem is PowerCLI only goes so far. You can manage basic ESXI and VCenter using it, and even use some basic add ons like Update Manager. However, we were getting into some of the advanced tools such as Site Recovery Manager and VCloud Director, and at that point those tools had no commandline interface at all, don't know if this has changed since I was a VMWare guy. Ryan
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine M. Moss Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 6:40 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
I've not used it since Version 6 but what I've discovered is to create VMs, one can use VMware Workstation, and then import the created template into the server. And for management, there's PowerCLI for those who prefer the command line interface.
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Billy Irwin Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 21:22 To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
Greetings,
My experience with the HTML interface is that you cannot function very well with it. I switched back to Xen Server from Citrix. Then I can use Xen Center for most tasks. Granted to initially setup a VM I had to have someone sighted but I built my templates and now it isn't a big deal.
Thanks,
Billy
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart via Blind-sysadmins Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 9:16 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Ryan Shugart <ryshugar@microsoft.com> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
By template do you mean an .OVF appliance? If so then most appliances default to a DHCP address and how you change the IP depends on the appliance. Many have you access a configuration menu through the console, which isn't accessible, some will pull a DHCP IP and have a web interface set up so if you can figure out the assigned DHCP address you can go in and change the IP through the web UI. If you mean a standard VMWare template that you need a Virtual Center server to get to, yes you can do this, the UI is clunky but you can get through it in my experience. I'm assuming you're using the older VMWare Infrastructure Client and not the new HTML5 client, I honestly have no experience with that to know how well it works with screen readers. Ryan
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of mattias Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 5:05 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] esxi and accessibility
or are it called esx?
vmware
i have a dedicated server running it
if i download a vm template
are it possible to customize it?
with public ip etc?
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