In some of the MS Agronomy courses you will be asked to connect to the Agronomy Virtual Labs in order to complete your assignments. Follow these steps to connect:

Read the overview to understand what it is you are trying to achieve.
Connect to the Agronomy Virtual Labs to login to the appropriate virtual machine.

1. Overview

Many software resources are provided through a virtual environment. The virtual environment contains a collection of virtual labs. The virtual labs are a collection of virtual machines that provides an individualized operating system, allowing students the ability to simultaneously connect to a specific lab.

2. Connect to the Agronomy Virtual Labs and start the connection

You can access the Agronomy Virtual Labs through the web access portal.

Go to https://vdi.iastate.edu.
Click the icon for VMware Horizon HTML Access
Login with your Net-ID and password, selecting IASTATE from the dropdown menu.
Locate the virtual lab you wish to use and click it to launch the virtual machine connection.

Need help?

If at any time you experience difficulties connecting to the Agronomy Virtual Labs or using the files/software which are available via the virtual machines, contact the Agronomy Development Lab for assistance by emailing agrondevlab@iastate.edu.