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If the virtual desktop is discarded when the user logs out, the Host is effectively

destroyed as well, but the Gateway doesn‘t know this. The Host remains known to the

Gateway (and managed, using a Managed Hosts license) until it is manually cleaned up

by an administrator, or until the Delete Hosts older than feature kicks in and deletes it.

(But note that setting is measured in days, default is set to 120, and setting that to a low

value runs the risk of deleting conventional installed Hosts that are simply offline for a

while.)

To address both of these problems, the Gateway Server supports a special version of the

Host for VDI that is ―transient‖ in nature (similar to a Terminal Services Host session);

when the VDI Host is specified in the template, the following will occur:

A new group, ―Transient VDI Hosts‖, is automatically created at the Gateway when a

Host of this type first reports. All Hosts of this type are automatically managed

(independent of the ―automatically manage Hosts‖ setting), and are added to this group.

If the virtual desktop is discarded when the user logs out, the VDI Host, because of

its transient nature, will automatically be disconnected and removed from the Gateway,

freeing up a Managed Host license.

Similar to what happens when recording TS Host sessions, a new pseudo-host,

―Recordings of Transient VDI Hosts‖, is created when any of these Hosts is recorded.

The recording of the VDI Host is associated with this pseudo-Host instead of with the

Host workstation, and will remain in there even after the virtual desktop is discarded

If the Gateway is in Managed Hosts licensing mode, a new license key that limits the

maximum number of VDI Hosts that can be connected to the Gateway concurrently is

required

VNC connections

PC-Duo provides remote access and remote control to computers running a standard

version of VNC (Virtual Network Computing) server. A VNC server is built into recent

versions of the Mac OS X operating system from Apple Computer, and is also available

on many versions of the Linux operating system. When properly configured, technicians

can use PC-Duo Master on Windows to connect to and take control of Mac and Linux

computers running standard VNC server.

PC-Duo currently supports peer-to-peer connections to VNC servers. Support for

Gateway-managed connections to VNC servers is expected in the next release.

See "VNC Hosts" in the PC-Duo Master Guide for more information on configuring and

connecting to VNC servers.

Supported Platforms

PC-Duo Master can interoperate with standard VNC servers on following platforms:

Mac OS X v10.5-10.7

Red Hat Linux Fedora 11-16

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