Guacamole as VNC for Nutanix Cluster

[Hammad Siddiqi <hs...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I am new to this user list so i am not sure if i am repeating any previous
questions.

Would you please let me know if it is possible to use Guacamole as VNC
client for Nutanix Cluster as it employs a noVNC proxy solution within
their hypervisors.  We are able to use 2nd noVNC  as a proxy server to
connect to the nutanix cluster.

Please let me know if additional details are needed on this.

Thanks

Hammad Siddiqi

Re: Guacamole as VNC for Nutanix Cluster

[Hammad Siddiqi <hs...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Mike,

Nutanix cluster integrated noVNC Proxy solution for giving VNC access to
the VMs hosted on it. it doesn't provide access directly to the VNC port
(HOST_IP:PORT) where as it provides a websocks based URL showing VNC
Console of the VM.


https://CLUSTER_IP:9440/console/lib/noVNC/vnc_auto.html?path=vnc/vm/UUID/proxy&title=VMNAME&uuid=UUID&uhura=true&attached=false&noV1Access=false&useV3=false

Thanks

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 1:47 AM Mike Jumper <mj...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:32 PM Hammad Siddiqi <hs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to this user list so i am not sure if i am repeating any
>> previous questions.
>>
>> Would you please let me know if it is possible to use Guacamole as VNC
>> client for Nutanix Cluster ...
>>
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. You can use Guacamole to
> access any VNC server that is reachable over the network from the Guacamole
> server. I've not personally heard of "Nutanix Cluster", but it doesn't
> matter what hosts the VNC server(s) so long as they speak VNC and are
> reachable.
>
> You would add connections within Guacamole pointing to the various nodes
> on your network that serve VNC. Users outside your network with accounts
> within Guacamole would then be able to access those nodes through Guacamole
> if you grant them permission. If "Nutanix Cluster" provides some sort of
> API for retrieving node information, you could alternatively write a
> Guacamole extension to expose access to these nodes automatically.
>
> Ideally, you would then also isolate your network such that only Guacamole
> is publicly accessible, effectively functioning as a security layer between
> the public internet and your VNC servers.
>
> - Mike
>
>

Re: Guacamole as VNC for Nutanix Cluster

[Mike Jumper <mj...@apache.org>]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:32 PM Hammad Siddiqi <hs...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to this user list so i am not sure if i am repeating any previous
> questions.
>
> Would you please let me know if it is possible to use Guacamole as VNC
> client for Nutanix Cluster ...
>

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. You can use Guacamole to
access any VNC server that is reachable over the network from the Guacamole
server. I've not personally heard of "Nutanix Cluster", but it doesn't
matter what hosts the VNC server(s) so long as they speak VNC and are
reachable.

You would add connections within Guacamole pointing to the various nodes on
your network that serve VNC. Users outside your network with accounts
within Guacamole would then be able to access those nodes through Guacamole
if you grant them permission. If "Nutanix Cluster" provides some sort of
API for retrieving node information, you could alternatively write a
Guacamole extension to expose access to these nodes automatically.

Ideally, you would then also isolate your network such that only Guacamole
is publicly accessible, effectively functioning as a security layer between
the public internet and your VNC servers.

- Mike