Improving Performance By Using Hosted Virtual Desktops

By Mamie Conrad


Virtualization has introduced a new concept in computing and other associated processes. With this kind of approach a client is capable of carrying out high power processes on thin client. This is enabled when the client runs this application on a server operating system. In this way distributed processing can be easily accomplished. Such a kind of environment will increase the throughput from a company. Typically this can be implemented through hosted virtual desktops as one of the examples.

This process also called client virtualization is accomplished when the personal computer desktop environment is separated from the physical machine. This approach operates on the client server model where the environment is established on a server using a virtual desktop interface (VDI). This kind of arrangement is capable of supporting smart phone applications or operations on other thin client that exceeds the hardware ability to run.

Apparently with such an arrangement applications with high demand on hardware requirements can actually be executed on a thin client machine. Such is the case where smart phones run powerful applications as though this was localized. Such applications are actually utilizing the server operating system in the background.

In this way many user instances can be available from the server. These different users can have access to each of their unique environments running concurrently on the server. In this way every user runs a personalized session unaware that it is on the server and that there are more than one user running their applications remotely.

An obvious benefit from such a concept is in remote administration capabilities. Therefore different administrators can create and upload personalized VDI instances. They will have access to them at any one time and carry on their designated tasks without noticing that everything is running remotely. The environment is such that the controlling and duplicate machines have similar set up.

The process of enabling share ability of same instances from the server has several advantages. Remote users can concurrently access the same instance from the server and share in the computing process. In this way prudent resource management is achievable apart from other benefits that come with the centralized technique of computing.

The centralized management comes with a secured remote access process. In fact client data integrity is generally improved when such an approach is implemented. All this is apart from the longer refresh cycles that are accomplished when the client works remotely. In this way there is no lag even when many clients are logged on to the same server at the same time.

Generally the implementation of the VDI can be accomplished in a number of ways. This includes the centralized and hosted approaches where the application runs completely on the server. It may also be necessary to implement remote synchronization where a client makes a copy of the VDI instance on to the local machine. Ultimately with such a growing need for virtualization implementing hosted virtual desktops is a viable option.




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