Red Hat Solid ICE Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Extending the value of virtualization to the desktop

Red Hat Solid ICE for Desktops is a comprehensive virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution. It allows you to replace physical desktops with virtual desktops hosted in the datacenter, delivered on-demand, and centrally managed.

Solid ICE for Desktops reduces the cost and complexity of desktop deployments. It also improves the productivity of end users by providing a user experience nearly indistinguishable from traditional desktop installations, without the headaches.

Benefits provided by Solid ICE include:

• Cost savings:

  • Hardware - including both client and server - costs savings
  • Software licensing costs savings for both operating systems and applications
  • Power savings through high-density virtual desktops on the server

  Enhanced management

  • Elimination of desk-side visits through centrally managed and hosted virtual desktops
  • Automated management, provisioning, application delivery, and upgrades
  • Improved business continuity during planned and unplanned downtime

  User experience

  • Superior performance including high-performance audio/video and local peripherals
  • Continued support for obsolete apps and platforms through virtualization
  • Improved mobility for end users by providing fully functional enterprise desktops from anywhere

By leveraging Red Hat's leading open source virtualization platform, Red Hat Solid ICE for Desktops brings the award-winning value of open source to Windows and Linux desktops by providing all of the components necessary for a complete deployment:

Virtual Desktop Server (VDS) - High-density virtualization servers

• Runs Windows virtual desktop on a Red Hat virtualization platform
• Also includes a resource optimization layer that allows for better desktop interactivity, management, density, and visibility into the guest

Virtual Desktop Controller (VDC) - Desktop lifecycle management

• Centralized Management for all components of desktop deployment, including:
  • Provisioning manager, which provisions individual and pools of virtual desktops
  • User-service portal
  • Session manager/connection broker and connection protocol manager
  • Attach users to virtual desktops or pools of virtual desktops
  • Virtual desktop image and snapshot manager
  • High-availability/clustering system for servers and virtual desktops
• Designed from the ground up for managing thousands of virtual desktop objects
  • Search-driven (structured and wildcard) user interface (UI)
  • Administrators can manage every object in the system from one place
  • Scales to thousands of desktops

SPICE - Connecting the datacenter to the desktop

• SPICE is a remote connection protocol built for virtual environments. It is a fully integrated component of Solid ICE for Desktops.
• SPICE is closely coupled with KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine), and allows users the same interactive experience as they would have with a physical PC on a LAN, featuring:
  • Superior graphics performance (e.g. flash)
  • Video quality (30+ frames per second)
  • Bi-directional audio (for soft-phones/IP phones)
  • Bi-directional video (for video telephony/video conferencing)
  • No specialized hardware, as the software-only client can be automatically installed via Active-X and a browser on the client machine

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