Applying Virtual Desktop Infrastrcture For Academic Environment

Abstract

Nowadays, the society demands more and more of technologies. As we know, information technologies play an important role in our daily life, from entertainment as movies, music or office’s works as typesetting, scheduling or even macro as developing and inventing new technologies. Especially, the rise of Cloud Based Services gives enterprises, small companies, organizations or personal usage the infrastructures and services for storing data, resources and works on cloud services with a fair price. As what remains, the system resources are not using properly causing physical server being overloaded, we have to rely on low-cost solutions that can stand with the same hardware setup. With cloud computing, it is essential to create an environment where applications work in dependably, we can lower the cost of the services as well the fund in investing and maintaining the system compare to the typical computing environment. So, the purpose of this project is to give out a solution for schools, universities and small workplaces to replace multiple computers with minimum of one server and several mini-clients that doesn’t cost very much. For example, our University has multiple Lab Rooms with 50 PCs in each. It’s hard to replace just a few computers that’s damaged because we have to keep all the PC in the room to work in the same environment, same hardware and software for compatibility and symmetry. I find that it’s essential to replace and change the technology of operating the laboratory to cloud-based computing. It is hoped this study 5 can give a push for the implementation of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Academic Environment.