Mac Pro VDI Server???

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Mac Pro VDI Server???

Hi all,

I have a customer who has been in US recently. In an apple store or an Authorized Reseller he have seen a particular configuration with of Mac Pro:

A new Mac Pro with 6 Thunderbolt Screens connected, each screen equipped with keyboard and mouse, like VDI clients, running a different session!!!???

Open six different remote sessions: OK!

Six screens connect to the Mac Pro: it's clear, no problem!

But ... each one running one different Yosemite session: I'd like to see!

I never heard about.

I told my customer that this is highly improbable but ...

Somebody could tell me something about? Possible or not? Realized!!!??? Fake or true???

Thanks in advance.

Roberto

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), null

Posted on Feb 17, 2015 8:13 AM

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Feb 18, 2015 9:18 AM in response to rravelli

a quick search brings up these links. It appears to depend on some newish feature in VMWare View 4.5 or similar:

http://www.318.com/2012/03/virtual-desktop-infrastructure-vdi-for-mac-os-x/

https://www.nomachine.com/enterprise

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Feb 19, 2015 6:29 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Hi Grant,

Thanks for your answer. I read the articles but the solutions related are only under TCP/IP.

Maybe my description is not really right because of my english!

What I mean is that "normal" screens (only screens) are connected to the new MacPro (the one with 6 thunderbolt ports) through thunderbolt câbles (one each). Each screen is equipped with a keyboard and a mouse and can open a Mac OS X session (with specific credentials).

Of course it is limited by the number of thunderbolt ports!

Do you understand what I mean?

It's not technically impossible but ... if it had been made ... I guess Apple would noisily announced it in the last WWDC or keynote. Don't you think???

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