The name of the base system (platform): | Windows Server 2012 |
Developers: | Microsoft |
Last Release Date: | 2014/11/10 |
Technology: | Virtualization |
Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - provides to users easy access to the multifunction, qualitative Windows environment executed in DPC from any device.
Infrastructure of Microsoft VDI is based on the new version of Windows Server 2012 OS. Thanks to services of remote desktop computers (RDS) and Hyper-V technology get the following advantages in Windows Server 2012 OS of the organization:
- Platform: Windows Server 2012 provides a single platform for providing any type of the placed desktop computers thanks to what their deployment and management becomes simpler.
- User interaction: RemoteFX provides permanent full-function user interaction regardless of type of the virtual desktop computer, or the place from which the user gets access to it.
- 3 options of deployment: In RDS it is possible to place desktop computers on the basis of sessions, VM, joint in pools, and personal VM. Therefore clients have an opportunity to deploy any VDI desktop computer of suitable type for the users from a single platform.
Advantages of Microsoft VDI in the environment of Windows Server 2012
- Effective management: QuickDeploy helps clients quickly and just to get to work with VDI: basic BM or VDI on the basis of sessions can be unrolled in only several mouse clicks that simplifies installation of such environment. The administration console RDS is significantly simplified therefore IT specialists have a set of options of setup and management of users, sessions and VM from the single console. Intellectual correction and scanning by means of the accidental choice of tasks guarantees different filling of all servers.
- Maximum advantages to virtual desktop computers: Fair separation guarantees that any VM and any session does not consume excessive quantity of resources of the computer thanks to what system performance increases. Hyper-V are the platform of a hypervisor of a corporate class intended for placement of large deployments of VDI. Services RDS support different inexpensive storage systems, for example shared folders for SME or storage system with direct connection now (Direct Attached Storage, DAS); thanks to it storage of VM became cheaper as clients do not need to use for this purpose expensive networks of storage (SAN).
- Multifunction user interaction in any place: RemoteFX supports now the program graphic processor which codes and decodes graphics and multimedia data also effectively, as well as the physical graphic processor. RemoteFX provides great user interaction thanks to support of local networks and global networks with low capacity and a high delay and also such opportunities as redirection of the USB drive and remote multitouch input.
Services RDS provide to IT specialists in a business environment the major solutions which first of all are focused on flexibility, the improved observance of requirements and the continuity of processes and also on simplification of management and providing.