{"id":43,"date":"2024-08-14T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-08-14T15:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T20:49:18","slug":"connecting-to-vdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/connecting-to-vdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting to VDI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Connecting via the VMware Horizon Client <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Note: VPN is required<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Connect to the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client (<a href=\"https:\/\/help.illinoisstate.edu\/technology\/downloads\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/help.illinoisstate.edu\/technology\/downloads\">download here<\/a>)<ul><li>Please note that this requires 2-factor authentication. The authentication process varies depending on your setup. Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/help.illinoisstate.edu\/technology\/support-topics\/accounts\/multi-factor-authentication-mfa\/sign-in-using-multi-factor-authentication\">here<\/a> for more information.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Download the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/customerconnect.omnissa.com\/downloads\/info\/slug\/desktop_end_user_computing\/vmware_horizon_clients\/horizon_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VMware Horizon Clien<\/a><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"VMware Horizon View Client (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vmware.com\/web\/vmware\/info\/slug\/desktop_end_user_computing\/vmware_horizon_clients\/5_0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>t<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>Install with default options and the View Connection Server is: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vdi.it.ilstu.edu\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/vdi.it.ilstu.edu\">vdi.it.ilstu.edu<\/a>\u201c<\/li><li>Open VMware Horizon View Client<ul><li>Double click on \u201cvdi.it.ilstu.edu\u201d<\/li><li>Logon with your ISU ULID and password<\/li><li>Double click on the VM-Pool you would like to access<ul><li>ITLab-Pool \u2013 General use virtual machines<\/li><li>ITPersonal-Pool \u2013 Faculty\/Staff\/GA virtual machines<\/li><li>Class Specific VM Pool \u2013 your instructor will give you the name<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2>Accessing VDI via the web browser<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>First connect with the Cisco Anyconnect VPN client, then open a web browser tab and go to <a href=\"https:\/\/vdi.it.ilstu.edu\">vdi.it.ilstu.edu<\/a><br><em>(recommended if you are using MacOS Catalina) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting via the VMware Horizon Client Note: VPN is required Connect to the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client (download here) Please note that this requires 2-factor authentication. The authentication process varies depending on your setup. Please see here for more information. Download the VMware Horizon Client Install with default options and the View Connection Server is: \u201cvdi.it.ilstu.edu\u201c Open VMware Horizon View Client Double click on \u201cvdi.it.ilstu.edu\u201d Logon with your ISU ULID and password Double click on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}