What impressed me the most with all of this PCoIP stuff was the simplicity in USB I’ve put in some random devices in this USB port and every one so far has worked. However, even with the most advanced Citrix system I still have to do some magic to do anything with a USB port. I do not try to hide my allegiance to Citrix, they’ve been around much longer than VMware and know a thing or two about getting a desktop to an end user. upon further investigation I found that the only difference this makes is if I was running dual 24 inch monitors and both monitors where running at full frame rate, I'd see some display issues on the second monitor. UPDATE: Wyse has informed me that the P20 has 64MB of RAM whereas the Dell has 32MB.
All I did was take it out of the box, plug it in and it worked honestly isn’t that exactly what we want in a zero client? In a comparision I could not find a single difference between the two devices, the branding is obviously different and I like that the Dell has an old school on off power switch on the back, but besides that these units are 100% identical. I’m not really sure what to review on theses terminals. The only thing I had to do outside of installing this appliance was a small DNS change, with that setup it was time for me to plug in the terminal. My first take is that they could improve on this interface but overall it gets the job done and has some pretty cool features (I really like that it can detect what devices are plugged into the zero client). Understanding the PCoIP Management Console was simple enough, I still haven’t read all of the instructions but I was able to figure out enough to get my terminal up and running in a short amount of time. Not a huge deal, honestly I just thought this was weird as View requires ESX so why would you make an appliance that runs on something else.
The VMDK is designed for Workstation/Player use only and I had to use converter to get it to work on ESX. Currently it is shipped as a VMDK file, which I thought was great, until I imported it to my SAN and tried to add it to my cluster. Setting up the Teradici PCoIP appliance, while simple, could be made much easier by changing the format it comes in. I am pretty familiar with VDI and have been a proponent of this technology since the get go, it is my hope that PCoIP will take the technology out of the infant stages and into the main stream. I am testing two terminals the P20 by Wyse and the FX100 by Dell. I’m smack dad in the middle of a terminal review to see if PCoIP is all it’s cracked up to be.
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