EventByte Meetup 2018, Navarra’s largest professional technology event, gathered last November in Pamplona the professionals of the IT sector in this area. In this meeting, the latest trends in the world of Information Technology and New Technologies were analyzed, including VDI and hyperconvergence. As an example of this topic, the organization chose the UDS Enterprise + Nutanix hyperconverged VDI joint solution.
One of the many innovations added to the new release of the UDS Enterprise connection broker is the support for the latest OpenStack versions. UDS Enterprise 2.2.1 allows managing and deploying virtual desktops and sessions of virtual applications with Pike, Queens, Rocky and Stein versions of the popular cloud orchestrator.
The new release of UDS Enterprise includes full support for Microsoft Azure. The connection broker development team has been working for the last few months so that platform administrators now can manage and deploy virtual desktops and applications hosted on Azure through UDS Enterprise 2.2.1.
The UDS Enterprise team has released a new stable version of the VDI and vApp connection broker. UDS Enterprise 2.2.1 is now available for download on our website.
As main improvement, this new release supports Azure, which allows to manage and deploy virtual desktops and applications hosted in the Microsoft cloud service. Support for the Azure AD Authenticator has also been added, so that administrators can directly validate users or user groups registered in Azure so that they can access their virtual desktops and vApp through UDS Enterprise.
The UDS Enterprise VDI and vApp connection broker allows you to choose among several options when displaying Linux virtual applications to users. The administrators of the platform can decide if they want users to see each Linux vApp individually, as independent services, or if they prefer them to be shown all grouped, as a single service. The image below shows an example of each case:
The UDS Enterprise team recommends a series of configurations when planning a deployment of Linux virtual applications using this VDI & vApp connection broker.
The first one refers to the persistence of the virtual desktops where the vApp will be deployed. It is advisable to use non-persistent desktops, so that when a user finishes using a virtual application, the desktop where the application is running is removed.
