I am away from my main desktop a few days of the week and have been looking at VNC options so I can access files on the workstation even when I'm away
I saw that RealVNC allows you to boot and power cycle a computer remotely which sounds perfect, however, they say you need to have a vPro CPU. I've never heard of such things so can anyone explain what this is? I'm planning on buying one of the new haswell-e CPUs in a few months - would they support this ability to boot remotely via RealVNC?
vPro is a business class technology that is implemented on certain CPUs, it essentially boosts security on a low level and adds advanced management features. Big write up on it here:
Now vPro only comes on Xeons and certain consumer CPUs, sadly none of the Haswell-E i7 have it so the only way to get vPro on socket 2011-3 is with the upcoming Xeon E5 v3 processor and you would most likely need a C610 board in order to enable the vPro features.