UDS Enterprise 3.0 Release Candidate is now available exclusively for all our subscribers. The VDI broker team has made the new version of the software available to all its clients, so that they are the first to try the wide range of possibilities it offers in terms of administration, management and user experience.
UDS Enterprise has always been closely linked to educational environments. So it is not surprising that many students choose this software as the cornerstone of their projects. This is the case of three students who have completed the Administration of Computer Network Systems course at the Nicolau Copèrnic Institute, in Terrassa (Catalonia). Cristian Gallardo, Manuel Farfán and Marc Sisó have used UDS Enterprise for their Final Degree Project, which they have titled MCM & CLOUD. They have documented how to offer virtual desktops and applications through a web browser with UDS Enterprise and XCP-ng, the Open Source hypervisor based on XenServer.
Last week we revealed one of the most outstanding new features of UDS Enterprise 3.0 (currently in beta): the Meta Pools. In this article, we will go through the different configuration options that this new tool offers. We’d like to remember that Meta Pools allow you to group an unlimited number of Service Pools so that they work as a single platform.
At the moment of registering a new Meta Pool, the policy that the system will use to assign the services to the users will be chosen: Evenly distributed, priority or greater available.
We continue showing new enhancements included in the new version of our connection broker for desktop, application virtualization, and remote access to computers. UDS Enterprise 3.0, currently in beta, incorporates an interesting new functionality: Meta Pools. This is a fully configurable Service Pools grouping that allows you to join several platforms so that they work as if they were one.
A few days ago we disclosed the improvements that UDS Enterprise 3.0 incorporates in the UDS Server and UDS Tunnel components. Today we deal with the enhancements introduced in two other elements of our broker for desktop and application virtualization: the UDS Client and the UDS Actors.
Until now known as UDS Plugin, from release 3.0 of UDS Enterprise it will be called UDS Client. This component is installed on the client device to enable connection with desktops, virtual applications, or physical computers. The only case where it is not necessary is when the user connects using HTML5.
One of the major changes introduced in the new version of UDS Enterprise is the way to configure its main components: UDS Server and UDS Tunnel. As of version 3.0 of our desktop and application virtualization broker, which is currently in beta, the configuration will be done through a web environment. This new wizard has been designed to make the process even easier and more flexible.
On completion of the starting procedure of the UDS Server or UDS Tunnel, the URL to access the configuration wizard will be displayed. Once the corresponding IP and port have been entered in the browser, the wizard will appear:
