Elastic Desktop Service:Terms

Term

Description

administrator

Personnel who create, manage, and maintain cloud computers. Example: the O&M engineer of Enterprise A.

console

A platform on which an administrator can perform management, control, and O&M on resources. An administrator can create and manage office networks, templates, and perform routine O&M operations on users, images, cloud computer templates, applications, snapshots, and policies in the Elastic Desktop Service console. The administrator can also monitor sessions and cloud computers in the Elastic Desktop Service console.

end user

Personnel who use cloud computers. Example: a student in University A.

terminal

The physical hardware that end users use to connect to cloud computers. Examples: Windows PCs, macOS PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.

Alibaba Cloud Workspace terminal

An application or a channel from which cloud computers can be connected. In Elastic Desktop Service, the application is Alibaba Cloud Workspace.

Examples: Windows client, iOS client, Android client, macOS client, and web client

region

A geographical location where an Alibaba Cloud data center is deployed. In most cases, regions are named after the cities where the data centers are deployed. For example, the data center of the China (Qingdao) region resides in Qingdao, China.

office network

A collection of environment configurations for cloud computers, including the configurations of secure office networks, user account systems, and premium bandwidth plans. Cloud computers are deployed in office networks.

cloud computer

A virtual computer in the cloud. A cloud computer consists of basic components such as vCPUs, memory, OS, network, and disks.

cloud computer pool (formerly desktop group)

A group of cloud computers. You can change the specifications and modify the policies and images of cloud computers in a cloud computer pool in a centralized manner. The system can create and release cloud computers in a cloud computer pool based on an automatic scaling policy.

CPU

A central processing unit (CPU) can contain several physical cores. You can use the Hyper-Threading (HT) technology to create two virtual processing cores for each physical core in a CPU.

vCPU

vCPU stands for virtual CPU. vCPUs are the virtual processing cores of cloud computers.

policy

A collection of rules that manages the permissions on items such as USB redirection, disks, clipboards, client logon methods, and access domains. You can use policies to ensure the security of data transfer between clients and cloud computers.

image

A visual representation of information that is required to run cloud computers. The information includes the OS and initialization data of applications.

snapshot

A stateful data file of a disk at a specific point in time. You can use snapshots to back up and restore data.

cloud computer template

A template that contains the required configurations for a cloud computer. The configurations include an image and the required specifications, such as vCPUs, memory, GPU memory, system disk size, and data disk size.

AD domain server

An Active Directory (AD) domain server, also known as an AD domain controller, is a server on which active directories are installed to manage interactions within domains, including user logons and authentications.

DNS server

A Domain Name System (DNS) server that can store the domain names and the corresponding IP addresses of all hosts on the network and convert the domain names into IP addresses.

AD Connector

An AD connector is a component that is used to connect Elastic Desktop Service to the components of an enterprise AD system. You can use an AD connector to register an enterprise AD system with Elastic Desktop Service and synchronize information about AD accounts and permissions.

session

A logical connection that is established between an end user and a cloud computer or cloud application by using an Alibaba Cloud Workspace client, such as a Windows client, macOS client, and web client.