{"id":805,"date":"2012-07-16T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=805"},"modified":"2012-07-16T23:27:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:27:22","slug":"custom-rds-farm-the-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm &#8211; The Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-11445\" data-series-id=\"110\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?series=custom-remotefx-rds-farm\">Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WP_001340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-824\" title=\"First parts arrive\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WP_001340-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WP_001340-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WP_001340.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sufficed to say budgets are still tight for schools and nothing chews through the budget more than replacing a computer room full of PCs.<\/p>\n<p>One alternative has always been to convert the PCs in the room to <strong>&#8216;fat thin clients&#8217;<\/strong> with a small OS (say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/enterprise\/products-and-technologies\/virtualization\/thinpc.aspx\">Windows Thin PC<\/a>) and hook them up to\u00a0a Terminal Server\/<strong>Remote Desktop Services Farm<\/strong>. The biggest show stopper in this has been the lack of graphics acceleration which performing graphics intensive tasks difficult if not impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily <strong>Server 2008 R2 SP1<\/strong> has come around with <strong>RemoteFX technology<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; this allows you to harness the power of <strong>graphics processing in a server<\/strong>. Another issue crops up though &#8211; few if any servers (from leading OEMs like HP and Dell) support graphics cards and those that do are just as expensive as normal PCs.<\/p>\n<p>My solutions is &#8211; <strong>build custom servers out of AMD Fusion APUs<\/strong>\u00a0(which combine a powerful CPU and GPU on one chip) in true &#8216;cookie sheet style&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This series of posts looks at the hardware, software and endpoints (fat thin clients) that I&#8217;m going to be using in this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-11445 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"110\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?series=custom-remotefx-rds-farm\">Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Sufficed to say budgets are still tight for schools and nothing chews through the budget more than replacing a computer room full of PCs. One alternative has always been to convert the PCs in the room to &#8216;fat thin clients&#8217; with a small OS (say Windows Thin PC) and hook them up to\u00a0a Terminal Server\/Remote Desktop Services Farm. The biggest&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=805\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[52,107,111,14,102],"series":[110],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-servers","tag-custom-build","tag-remote-desktop-services","tag-remotefx","tag-server","tag-windows-server-2008-r2","series-custom-remotefx-rds-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}