We're looking to adopt Ignition Perspective in the coming months/years and I have some questions about thin client usage:
Currently, we use an assortment of other HMI packages that client sessions are hosted on Windows RDS servers, managed by Rockwell's ThinManager. The majority of the first batch we'd be migrating (~30 total) are all ThinManager "ready" meaning they PXE boot to grab all of their configuration and launch directly into their RDS session on a RDS server.
The initial plan was to continue to use this setup, but instead of launching whatever HMI software each client runs on the RDS server, they launch a browser or Perspective Workstation session instead.
I've seen references elsewhere that touch on this being a bad idea for Perspective clients, but I couldn't seem to find any elaboration why. Is that the case?
That being said -- if that is the case, are there any suggestions as to what we should be looking at to replace our current client/server infrastructure with? We're looking at the idea of using a container host to serve individual containers per client -- which ThinManager supports, or switching to some low end boxes and using LTSP to serve individual stripped down unix images.