I have used VMware vSphere ESXi server 6 trial with vCenter server and vSphere client 6 on Windows Server 2012 R2 locally and I could successfully get them to work, but I want to go one step further and try Horizon View 6 too for studying purposes.
Horizon View client can be run on a guest OS or through HTML5-based web browsers to access the console, but I want to know how to access the hosted guest OS on ESXi server using a thin client or a laptop with the support of PXE, so the guest thin client or laptop will not have an OS installed on them and instead use PXE to boot the guest OS hosted on ESXi Server. Is it possible with VMware vSphere 6 and Horizon View 6? What other options do I have with VMware products to run the guest OS hosted on ESXi Server on a client without any OS?
Answer
Horizon View client can be run through HTML5-based web browsers to access the console. Then you could PXE boot "any" Linux live distro and start its Web browser pointing to the Horizon View URL.
You will need a PXE server that could also be run from an ESXi's guest. This PXE server is the one that will offer the above mentioned Linux live distro for PXE booting.
If you need a self contained automated PXE Server see Serva. (I'm related to Serva development)
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