{"id":683,"date":"2017-08-01T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/?page_id=683"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:26:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:26:49","slug":"vdi-virtual-desktops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/information\/vdi-virtual-desktops\/","title":{"rendered":"VDI &#8211; Virtual Desktops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Virtual Desktops<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) service offered by CAS Information Technology provides faculty and students with a standardized desktop environment outside of a traditional computer lab setting. By downloading and installing the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vmware.com\/web\/vmware\/info\/slug\/desktop_end_user_computing\/vmware_horizon_clients\/5_0\">VMware Horizon Client<\/a>, the virtual machines (VMs) are accessible from any computer connected to the BU network. Please refer to the documents below for detailed instructions.<\/p>\n<p>BU&#8217;s VPN (Virtual Private Network) is necessary for using VDI off-campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/files\/2017\/01\/Setting-Up-and-Using-the-VPN.pdf\">Download instructions for using VPN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/casit\/files\/2022\/11\/Horizon-Client-Instructions-Windows.pdf\">Horizon Client Instructions &#8211; Windows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/casit\/files\/2022\/11\/Horizon-Client-Instructions-Mac.pdf\">Horizon Client Instructions &#8211; Mac<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/casit\/files\/2022\/11\/Accessing-VDI-from-a-Browser.pdf\">Accessing VDI from a Browser<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Computer Science students should refer to the instructions here: <a href=\"https:\/\/cs-wiki.bu.edu\/tiki-index.php?page=Virtual+Desktop+Infrastructure\">https:\/\/cs-wiki.bu.edu\/tiki-index.php?page=Virtual+Desktop+Infrastructure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For assistance email <a href=\"mailto:cashelp@bu.edu\">cashelp@bu.edu<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/help-request\/\">submit a ticket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maintenance Windows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Virtual Desktop maintenance is scheduled every 1st Friday of the month from 4-8AM. VMs will be unavailable intermittently for the duration of the outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Desktops The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) service offered by CAS Information Technology provides faculty and students with a standardized desktop environment outside of a traditional computer lab setting. By downloading and installing the VMware Horizon Client, the virtual machines (VMs) are accessible from any computer connected to the BU network. Please refer to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7479,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683\/revisions\/1477"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}