Nuvola leverages the power of VMware View™ 4 for delivering customers with desktops from the datacenter as a secure, managed service. The service is Built on VMware vSphere™ for Desktops, that is one of the best platforms designed specifically for desktop virtualization. Desktop Virtualization is also known as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) where enterprise desktop computers are virtualized, moved to the data center, then presented over the LAN or WAN to the end users.
Compared with Terminal Services, the VDI experience is closer to that of desktop PC. With Terminal Services, users log in to one of many sessions hosted by the same Windows server, resulting in a generic desktop environment. With VDI, users log into a specific Windows Virtual Machine running on VMware and enjoy a separate, personalized Windows experience that preserves any user customizations. Nuvola offers many of the same benefits at the desktop level that it does at the server level. Virtual Machine snapshots, live Virtual Machine migration between hosts, automated load balancing, and storage migrations all come in to play.
With our solution we can provision desktops that are built from a common image. Instead of creating one image for each user we create images corresponding to various user profiles – for example, an image for operations, an image for sales, and an image for finance. As users in those groups log in, their VDI instance is mapped to a new Virtual Machine instantly or pulled from a pool of available Virtual Machines suited for the task. With the requisite group policies, drive mappings, and roaming profiles, Other benefit is application compatibility, since each desktop Virtual Machine is isolated from the rest and consumes a pre-configured amount of resources,there’s no danger of applications and users stepping on one another. In summary, from the user’s perspective, nothing changes.