Having read the recent blog titled "Citrix XenDesktop delivered from 4650 miles away using NVIDIA vGPU Oslo, Norway to Florida, States - via a wifi hotel ...... "I am inspired to share my story fast Here it is ...
I was recently asked by the customer. a program team in the US military based in Birmingham AL, to come down to Washington DC and to provide an overview of XenDesktop 7 and demonstrate. Their main requirement was to be able to provide 3D applications. Now anyone who has dealt with the federal government in the past may know that the ties of LAN / WAN government are not the best way to prepare for the demonstration I had to make sure that the demo gods bless me. a candle was lit Just kidding.
I asked for a demonstration environment where 3D applications were incorporated and the environment has been optimized with a vGPU technology with nVidia card K1. You see, at that time, we do not have it readily available in our demo environment (now we do!) So a job had to be done. The gods of the demo made me nervous. My petition completed by demonstration team in a short time, but came with a caveat. The demonstration environment was outside the great city of Amsterdam. The Dutch! (Film Reference). I was told that the US based demo environment was used by our sales team to tour Mexico joint Microsoft / Citrix. Shout out to the sales team in Mexico. I heard the tour was a success. ¡Although hecho!
So ... I'm here. En route to Birmingham with the thought of "what can go wrong?
I convinced the US Army Enterprise Sales Relationship (ERM) report extra early to the customer site to ensure that my scenery was good to go. We meet our contact point and escorted to the conference room, which look like a classroom. There were lots of whiteboards and a huge projector. I opened recently buy MacBook Air and I'm looking for the Wi-Fi client. I have found nothing. No Wi-Fi. The point of contact gives me an Ethernet cable. You remember that? rights? No problem, right? I reach into my bag to remove my USB Ethernet Adapter (MacBook Air has no Ethernet port). Doh! I left. Anyway, he would not have done me good that the network was a semi-closed system which means it would have taken some time to access the internet ... maybe an act of Congress. Here walks in the team supporting this effort. Not like one or two people ... make it more like 20. I told you ... it was a classroom.
I look around and quickly difficult to attach to my iPhone. Someone probably think that was the wrong move, but at the time I was three bars (really circles) of an LTE connection ... Birmingham, AL ... about to connect to a server about 4,40 miles away ... to offer a 3D application. Yes I know. So I went. You see I love to do first demonstrations and follow up with an overview, which is what I did. The result ... the demo was perfect. I used one of nVidia demonstration applications where I 3D head with hair flowing just sliding over the screen. Magnificent! I then open the client demo application, which look like Google Earth. I walked around the world. Zooming in and out. I did all this without telling them where the demonstration environment. In fact, I used mapping software to tell them that the server was located in the Netherlands and I was using my phone to tether. After the demo, I went on XenDesktop 7 vGPU, the work we have done with nVidia, and the improvement we made to mobile networks. At the end of the table part of our conversation, I was asked to demonstrate again. They were in shock on how it was smooth. My only one-hour meeting turned into a 180 minutes of meeting.
Lessons Learned ...
- be prepared
- leverage your resources
- Do not let your Wi-Fi adapter for your MacBook air
- HDX light that candle.
I know, I know .... not much of a technical blog, but I thought I would share my experience. I was totally happy with the demo. Moreover, the client and contractors were excited and happy to go tot he next step. I was never worried. The answer ... No, 4,40 miles is not far from having a virtual office to deliver.
¡Although hecho!
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