About VRL Cloud
Vista Remote Link (VRL) Cloud is a method for connecting to the Vista application in Trimble Viewpoint's cloud.
Trimble Viewpoint hosts your Vista application and database servers in Microsoft Azure data centers, instead of you having to maintain these servers on premises.
Each user workstation has a locally installed Vista rich client application which communicates with Viewpoint's cloud over the Internet, using HTTPS.
- Go to the video in the Viewpoint Academy.
- Select Enroll.
- Sign in using your Viewpoint Academy credentials.
Simpler User Experience
VRL access results in a simplified day-to-day user experience compared to RDP.
File-sharing Security
Since it is occurring over the internet, file sharing that occurs in Vista must necessarily be made more secure. Vista offers a way to restrict the types of files that can be uploaded within your network. See About the File Extension White List Form.
Network File Storage Requirements
Because Trimble Viewpoint hosts your database and application servers, file management and storage methods are different than when your users have immediate access to your company servers (such as with a LAN deployment). Specifically, any process that retrieves files from the database server is affected.
- IM Auto Import Profile Setup - see About Importing Files Automatically.
- PM Create & Send Locations - see PM Create & Send Locations Form.
- RP Report Locations - see Set Report Locations - VRL.
VPN Connection is included with VRL Cloud
As a standard part of your cloud deployment, Trimble Viewpoint provides a VPN connection from your office so that third-party applications which are not hosted by Viewpoint within the environment can access your Vista server in our Cloud.
The Vista client connects without a VPN.
For further details, see About VPN Use for VRL Cloud Users.
Internet Performance Requirements
Successful VRL Cloud operations are dependent in part upon your organization's network performance. While your sales representative can walk you through a more comprehensive evaluation, these performance standards are provided for your convenience.
- Test bandwidth using www.speedtest.net.
- Test packet loss and latency using www.azurespeed.com.
- If you are a U.S.-based company, check all U.S. and Canadian regions.
- If you are an Australia-based company, check only
Australian regions.Note: We currently have data centers in multiple locations, but not all Azure locations in each region. Your data is situated as close to your place of business as geographically possible.
Ideal | Acceptable | Unsupported | ||
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Packet Loss | <0.5% | 0.5-1.5% | >1.5% | |
Latency | <30 ms | 31-60 ms | >60 ms | |
Bandwidth | Download | >10 Mbps | 7.5-10 Mbps | <7.5 Mbps |
Upload | >1.5 Mbps | 1.0-1.5 Mbps | <1.0 Mbps |