(See Release Notes for VMware Horizon 7 version 7.7 ) Physical PC is only supported with Windows 10 Enterprise Edition with Horizon view 7.7 or higher.

Faculty or students needing access to additional applications or desktop pools should contact the COE-VDI help desk (you must use a UW or Gmail email address).To support Physical PC access through Horizon, First of all validate if below conditions are met:

Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android clients are availableĪccess is enabled by default for all College of Engineering Students.

The non GPU enabled VMs have 12GB of RAM compared to the GPU VMs that have 8GB of RAM. As our GPU licenses are limited, we ask that students default to using the 'COE Lab' VM pool. Logging in with your UW NetID, you may access the COE-VDI VM pools by using either the VMware Horizon Client, or the COE-VDI webpage. Using a variety of different devices, COE-VDI may be accessed both on and off campus. In addition to improved accessibility, COE-VDI can help give students access to university licensed software from anywhere, using any device with an Internet connection-24 hours a day, seven days a week.įor more in-depth instructions, please see: Getting Started with COE-VDI. COE-VDI desktops can be accessed from anywhere using the VMware Horizon Client or COE-VDI webpage. Each session is created on-demand and provides a clean workstation environment for each user when they log on.ĬOE-VDI allows COE Students to access a managed workstation like they may find in their department’s student computer labs. Using VMWare Horizon software, it provides a flexible Windows Desktop experience for students enrolled in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington Seattle Campus.Įach COE-VDI session is hosted on our VMware Horizon data center servers and provides the operating system and all necessary software as part of the desktop environment. COE-VDI is a Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure.

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