WebPortal

Owned by Javier Celaya (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Aug 29, 2017
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The flexVDI WebPortal is an appliance that serves the flexVDI HTML5 Client through a web server. You can deploy it in your platform so that your users can access it without installing a desktop client.

In order to deploy the WebPortal, follow these steps:

  1. Download it from our Downloads page and copy it to a Media Storage.
  2. Import it into the platform with the Import Guest Wizard of the Tools menu:
    Just follow the instructions to create the WebPortal image in one of your Image Storages and the guest in one of your Pools.
  3. The WebPortal comes preconfigured with 1 vCPU and 2 GB of RAM, with one virtual network interface attached to virbr0. Configure it to your needs, specially the network interface.
  4. Start the WebPortal guest and open a console to it. When the prompt appears, log in as root. The default password is "flexvdi".
  5. Launch the flexvdi-config program to set up the WebPortal appliance. It will show a menu similar to the one shown by flexvdi-config in the hosts.
  6. Enter in the Network submenu and set up the IP address of the WebPortal network interfaces and the DNS server configuration.
  7. Enter in the WebPortal submenu and set up the IP address of the manager to which you want the users to connect.
    1. New on 2.2.12: In this submenu, you can also upload an SSL server certificate and use it to identify the WebPortal.
  8. Exit the flexvdi-config program, log out and close the console.
  9. Open a web browser and head to the IP address you just set up for the WebPortal. You should be able to see the following login form:
  10. Your WebPortal appliance is up and running. Enjoy it!