I’m supporting my team using a cluster of Threadripper 7000 machines running Redhat 8.9 for Ansys simulations. It’s running bare metal with no virtualization. We have RealVNC licenses for users to work on the desktop as they have graphics requirements.
Some of the software tends to chug as it requires some GPU acceleration to draw graphics, and RealVNC is locked to CPU rendering. I have an A6000 in the system to help with the CAD stuff but the system is in a rack headless otherwise.
I don’t necessarily want to go through all the effort of virtualizaing windows desktops and provisioning them for users. I’m not actually a trained system administrator.
I was wondering what the best way to give users hardware accelerated remote desktop for multiple users that has encryption.
The top of my list to try is xrdp and it appears there’s a guide out there.
https://gist.github.com/Nexarian/0eb26a3284b21b55b6e1e8653ed88ec9
My second option is honestly trying out sunshine for multiple users since it’s open source and supposedly supports encryption. I also use the software personally so I’ll have the best shot of supporting it.
The users are all using windows machine, my personal one is an M1 based macbook.
I feel like this use case isn’t too niche and I’m going down the wrong path and missing something obvious.