Re: PXES Wish List

Dear Mark,
Thank you very much for your comments.
Could you explain what is missing to support VMware GSX, I think that it
should be totally transparent. Is a Citrix VMware GSX server
distinguishable from a real Citrix server ?

Regards.

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 00:00, Mark Baker wrote:
> I am a network administrator for a company that just started deploying
> PXES to about 80 to 100 new temporary employees.  We are currently
> using Citrix, and things are working VERY well.  With the WinAgents
> multi threaded TFTP server the PXES client is booted up on a pentium
> 100 faster than you can believe.  We would like to see something added
> for support for VMWare GSX Server however.  We have explored other
> alternatives to moving towards this but it would be too much of an
> overhaul to move away from PXES since we are already deploying it
> widely.  If we could have our clients boot directly into a GSX image,
> they would be more productive and we would get fewer trouble tickets
> reported.  The people that we deploy PXES to are generally not
> terribly intelegent.  They are the first tier support for the tax
> software that my company sells.  They tend to get lost going through a
> Knowledge Base article because they can't do EVERYTHING that the
> customer can because of the limitations of being on Citrix.  I think
> PXES is a great product, and I can see it only getting better.  We
> experimented with other alternatives, but the pxesconfig utility is
> just way to simple, but still effective.  Having to go through config
> file after config file is nearly impossible to get things right unless
> you really spend a lot of time with the product.  Keep up the good
> work and please consider support for GSX sometime soon.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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