This topic introduces the terms used in WUYING Workspace to help you understand and use cloud computers.
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 (formerly workspaces), cloud computers (formerly cloud desktops), and cloud computer pools (formerly desktop groups), and perform routine O&M operations on users, images, cloud computer templates, applications, snapshots, and policies in the WUYING Workspace console. The administrator can also monitor sessions and cloud computers in the WUYING Workspace 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. |
WUYING terminal | An application or a channel from which cloud computers can be connected. In WUYING Workspace, the application is Alibaba Cloud Workspace. Examples: Alibaba Cloud Workspace of Windows clients, macOS clients, and web clients. |
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 (formerly workspace) | 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 pool in a centralized manner. The system can create and release cloud computers in a cloud computer pool based on an automatic scaling policy. Note A cloud computer pool ID is formerly known as a desktop group ID. |
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 WUYING Workspace to the components of an enterprise AD system. You can use an AD connector to register an enterprise AD system with WUYING Workspace and synchronize information about AD accounts and permissions. |
session | A logical connection that is established between an end user and a cloud computer by using an Alibaba Cloud Workspace client, such as a Windows client, macOS client, and web client. |
Sessions
The lifecycle of a session begins when the session is established and ends when the session is closed. For more information, see session description in the Create a personal cloud computer pool topic.
