Renting remote VDI workstations based on the DaaS model

Standardized and ready-to-use virtual workstations

Renting remote VDI workstations based on the DaaS model

What is VDI?

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a technology that allows you to create a remote workplace using virtual machines located on the customer’s site or in the cloud. ITGLOBAL.COM provides VDI workplace virtualization as a managed service for rent under the DaaS (Desktop as a Service) model.

Remote desktop rental is:

VMware Horizon-based VDI

Own high-end equipment

10 Tier III data centers in 9 countries

Access from any device anywhere in the world

99.95% SLA

Affordable software

  • Microsoft Office 2019 package
  • Chrome, Opera, Mozilla browsers
  • PDF Reader
  • Antivirus
  • Archiver

What tasks is VDI suitable for?

Controlling employee access to corporate data.

Eliminating downtime due to regular PC fleet updates.

Transformation of capital expenditures into operating expenses.

Organization of remote employees’ work.

Protecting data from failures and damage to end equipment.

Advantages of VDI

Work from anywhere in the world

Organize the work of remote employees and geographically distributed teams.

Save on equipment

Work from any device: PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

Company data protection

Control employee access to corporate data.

Security

Protect your data from hardware failure.

Test Solution

Virtual desktop use cases

Thanks to VDI, employees can work from home and access only the information and tools they need.

VDI infrastructure allows all team members to stay connected and access company resources from anywhere in the world.

With VDI, contractors can be given access to the company’s platform from their own devices without the risk of data leakage.

VDI technology allows you to work efficiently with graphics-intensive programs for 2D and 3D design and keep overhead costs low.

Virtual workstations are suitable for temporary projects, such as software development.

Businesses can use cloud desktops to reduce the costs of setting up physical workstations: office rent, equipment and furniture purchases.

Features of cloud desktops

Information security through isolation and location on centralized server platforms

Ability to deploy virtual workstations with high or specific technical requirements

Suitable for medium and large companies

Isolation of virtual environments, where all work processes of individual users are separated

Packages and features

Configuration example

  • 12 CPU / 108 GB RAM / 500 GB SSD
  • Reserved infrastructure
  • Integration with customer’s AD
  • Dedicated terminal server cluster
  • Windows OS on all VMs
  • RDP connection

Configuration example

  • 48 CPUs / 432 GB RAM / 14 TB SSD
  • Reserved infrastructure
  • Integration with customer’s AD
  • Dedicated terminal server cluster
  • Windows OS on all VMs
  • RDP connection

Configuration example

  • 120 CPU / 1080 GB RAM / 35 TB SSD
  • Reserved infrastructure
  • Integration with customer’s AD
  • Dedicated terminal server cluster
  • Windows OS on all VMs
  • RDP connection

Why choose ITGLOBAL.COM

ITGLOBAL.COM has been successfully operating in the cloud services market since 2008. The company has 12 data centers in 10 countries and works with 50+ partners and 1000+ corporate clients worldwide. We are the only VMware solution provider in Russia with more than 15 years of expertise.

ITGLOBAL.COM is Russia’s first VMware Service Provider Partner. The VMware VSPP program in Russia was developed specifically for ITGLOBAL.COM and laid the foundation for building a new service in IT and business as a whole.

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Equipment

ITGLOBAL.COM uses its own high-end equipment based on FlexPod architecture, which provides multiple reserves of resources, power, and performance.
The cloud platform is based on equipment with redundant components, eliminating single points of failure. All components allow for “hot swapping” without shutting down the equipment.
The server platform consists of rack and blade servers installed in chassis with redundant power supplies and cooling units. Network I/O factories are also redundant.
A NetApp data storage system is used to store virtual machine files. The capacity of the storage system allows hundreds of thousands of I/O operations per second to be provided to individual clients.

List of available equipment

Typical 2-socket Cisco UCS B200 M5 server

The Cisco UCS B200 M5 blade server is the main “workhorse” of the data center. With half the width of a module, the B200 M5 provides the performance, versatility, and density required for multi-tier and distributed applications in the data center.

Server specifications:

  • 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6248R (24 cores, 3.0GHz);
  • 4 x 64GB DDR4 2933MHz RDIMM;
  • Cisco UCS VIC (2x40GbE).

vStack-R-based computing infrastructure

vStack-R-SL201-D25RE is a high-speed 2U rack server that is ideal for a wide range of enterprise workloads: IT and web infrastructure, high-performance virtual environments, and databases.

Server specifications:

  • 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6248R (2 x 24 cores @ 3.0 GHz);
  • 4 x 64GB DDR4 RDIMM 3200MHz.

Enterprise Storage NetApp AFF

Netapp AFF storage is presented as a cluster configuration of two controllers connected to each other via HighAvailability and a cluster interconnect — dedicated 25GbE ports. If necessary, the storage can be scaled up to a minimum of 12 controllers via dedicated Ethernet switches.

The storage system runs on ONTAP 9.10 OS and is a universal storage device that can provide both block and file access to information.

Each controller contains on board:

  • 2 built-in 10GbE RJ45 interfaces (Intel X557);
  • 4 x 10/25GbE SFP28 (NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP).

Basic solution diagram and components

VMware Horizon software is used to deliver virtualized desktops. It is a modern platform for providing and using VDI. With its help, administrators can automate and make the management of virtual workstations and applications more secure.

FAQ

For desktop virtualization, we use the new edition of the vSphere platform, VMware Horizon, which includes all the features of vSphere Enterprise Plus. The platform provides scalability, high availability, and optimal performance for all virtual desktop workloads.

A virtual workplace is a solution that allows you to organize remote work for employees without the need to install and download corporate applications on physical devices such as PCs, laptops, or smartphones. All business programs and data are stored in the cloud. Any platform can be used to connect: Windows, macOS, Android, iOS.

We use VMware Horizon 8 to implement the DaaS model for renting remote VDI workstations. Each remote desktop is represented by a separate virtual machine, whose resources, unlike a terminal server, are not shared with other users, ensuring stable performance.

VMware Horizon 8 is integrated with VMware’s software-defined data center, which includes vSphere and NSX. Businesses get a ready-made solution for on-premises and public cloud environments that eliminates the need for disparate storage, virtualization, and networking products.

Yes.

You can connect to VDI from a macOS device, but VDI itself will run on Windows or Linux.

Yes, but you will probably need a 3D VDI service with a graphics accelerator (vGPU).

We can provide Microsoft licenses and Kaspersky antivirus software for rent.

USB keys can be transferred to VMs, including VDI. However, we always recommend replacing them with software keys.macOS

No.

Other options for implementing a remote workplace service

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