Citrix, one of VirtualCable’s technology alliances, has certified that UDS Enterprise has successfully undergone the verification tests to ensure full compatibility with XenServer 6.5.
The VDI connection broker already had Citrix Ready certification for XenServer 6.2., which guarantees seamless integration of both solutions, and now adds Citrix Ready for XenServer 6.5.
In previous posts we analyzed 4 of the 5 UDS Enterprise components: UDS Server, UDS Tunneler, UDS Database and UDS Actor. Today it is UDS Plugin‘s turn, the last of UDS Enterprise components.
This software is installed in the connection client device (it supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS) to enable the connection to the different remote desktop services managed by UDS Enterprise through any connection protocol (transport) except HTML5.
Another UDS Enterprise key component is UDS Actor. It is the software responsible for the communication between the VDI connection broker and the different desktop services managed by UDS Enterprise: virtual and static desktops, applications…
This component configures virtual desktops according to the OS Manager set by the platform administrator, that contains some desktop features (operating system, persistent/non persistent, joined to domain…). In addition, it transmits data like the virtual desktop state, machine name, IP address, MAC, etc… so that the admin totally controls the virtual desktop at any time.
The series of articles that analyze each component of UDS Enterprise VDI connection broker and the meetings of RedIRIS Working Groups which took place at the beginning of this month at the University of Córdoba have been the most read topics in our blog for the last weeks.
Find below the links to the posts on these topics so that you can keep up to date with the most outstanding information abour Open Source and virtualization according to our followers:
VDI golden images allow to deploy several virtual desktops based on a single base image. This configuration simplifies a lot desktop management but also complicates updates.
A VDI golden image contains an operating system and hardware configuration. Windows-based images can be managed using Microsoft Sysprep tool in order to clone the OS. The image usually contains also patches and applications, but applications can be also virtualized separately.
UDS Enterprise connection broker requires a database to store all UDS system data, both from system setup (service providers, authenticators, transports…) and registries (users accesses to services, use of service pools, log…). The system uses all these data stored in the DB to generate reports and statistics, which are really useful to analyze the platform use and hence optimize its performance.
