Enabling Management and Scalability of the Virtual Utility Grid

A framework that ties individual Virtual-D Elements into a virtual desktop utility grid, the Service Grid provides federated management and orchestration of data centers, Elements and the Access Fabric. Designed to be inherently multi-tenant, it allows service providers to control the level of resource sharing between customers while always maintaining secure network segregation and isolation between enterprises. The Service Grid seamlessly supports Elements that are geographically distributed across multiple service provider and/or enterprise data centers.

The Service Grid provides:

• Multi-tenancy: Enables services providers to support multiple customers on the same shared infrastructure while maintaining isolation and delivering on SLAs
• Multi-data center support: Provides ability to manage Virtual-D Elements across multiple data centers to better serve customers who have dispersed geographic locations or the need for on-premises remotely-managed hosting
• High-performing distributed and inherently fault-tolerant architecture:A utility grid of Virtual-D Elements is designed for global access, rapid response and high availability. All Desktone nodes and grid management appliances are configured for automatic fail-over.

Desktone Virtual-D Elements: Building Blocks for a Scalable Desktops as a Service Architecture

Desktone Virtual-D Elements are the building blocks of a virtual desktop utility grid. Service providers use that grid to deliver and scale desktops as a service (DaaS) offerings. Each Element is a self-contained, modular unit of virtual desktop service delivery. From the physical perspective, an Element is one or more racks of servers, storage, virtualization resources and Desktone software. At the logical level, it's a grouping of basic hosting resources (compute, storage, networking and hypervisor) established by the Virtual-D platform in order to support a defined population of virtual desktops. The goal of Desktone's Element architecture is to make it simple and seamless for service providers to incrementally scale their DaaS environment.

• Optimized for Virtual Desktops: The hardware and software powering the Virtual-D Element are specifically selected and configured to support virtual desktop environments.
• Self-contained and Modular: Elements operate independently of each other. Service providers can easily add or remove Elements, enabling additional physical capacity to be seamlessly taken on or offline when the DaaS environment needs to be scaled up or down.
• Flexible Hosting Location: Virtual-D Elements can be hosted at service provider data centers for enterprises that require extended geographic coverage to properly support widely distributed user populations. Elements can also be hosted and remotely managed on enterprise premises, if desired, for customers with specific regulatory or other requirements. Regardless of where they are located, Virtual-D Elements are designed to fit into service providers' existing operational models.

Service providers build Elements themselves using Desktone's Virtual-D Element blueprint.