Hello there
At our company we have a growing number of computers (ca 50) and therefore I'm thinking about using Open Directory. Also some users need Windows, so parallels is also needed.
After a little thinking about what will happen with home directories on the network and image files from parallels, I think that parallels should do resonably fine over the network.
But then: A growing number of our users became laptop users: Salesmen, people who followup the construction-sites (being a contractor) and so on. Portable Home Directories (a function of Open Directory) is a welcome feature: users can be independent of open directory while still having a synced copy of their files on the network allowing them to log in anywhere, AND having a backup of their files when their laptop is lost/stolen.
But when Parallels's image file is in this home directory, that means if a user uses windows, they'll have to sync a file of 10 gigs or so. That's going to take a long time to login/logout, even without considering we have a wireless structure
Is there anyone else in this situation? And what solutions are there to be able to use parallels in conjunction with PHD and OD?
At our company we have a growing number of computers (ca 50) and therefore I'm thinking about using Open Directory. Also some users need Windows, so parallels is also needed.
After a little thinking about what will happen with home directories on the network and image files from parallels, I think that parallels should do resonably fine over the network.
But then: A growing number of our users became laptop users: Salesmen, people who followup the construction-sites (being a contractor) and so on. Portable Home Directories (a function of Open Directory) is a welcome feature: users can be independent of open directory while still having a synced copy of their files on the network allowing them to log in anywhere, AND having a backup of their files when their laptop is lost/stolen.
But when Parallels's image file is in this home directory, that means if a user uses windows, they'll have to sync a file of 10 gigs or so. That's going to take a long time to login/logout, even without considering we have a wireless structure
Is there anyone else in this situation? And what solutions are there to be able to use parallels in conjunction with PHD and OD?