This topic describes the terms used in Elastic Desktop Service to help you better understand and use cloud computers.
People
Term | Description |
administrator | Personnel who create, manage, and maintain cloud computers. For example, the O&M engineer of Enterprise A. |
end user | Personnel who actually use cloud computers. For example, a student of University A. |
console | The platform on which administrators perform management, control, and O&M operations. In the console, administrators can create and manage office networks and templates, manage users, images, cloud computer templates, applications, snapshots, and policies, and monitor sessions and cloud computers as part of daily O&M. |
Infrastructure
Term | Description |
region | A geographical area in which a data center resides. Regions are typically named after the cities where the data centers are located. For example, the data center of the China (Qingdao) region is located in Qingdao. |
office network | A collection of working environment configurations that hosts cloud computers, including secure office network division, the user account system, and Internet bandwidth. |
cloud computer | A virtualized desktop service in the cloud. A cloud computer consists of basic components such as vCPUs, memory, an operating system, a network, and disks. |
cloud computer pool (formerly desktop group) | A group of cloud computers. You can change the specifications, policies, and images of the cloud computers in a cloud computer pool at a time. Cloud computers in a cloud computer pool support automatic creation and release based on an auto scaling policy. or a shared . |
cloud computer template | A template that contains the configurations required by a cloud computer, including the image, specifications such as vCPUs and memory, GPU memory, the system disk, and data disks. |
Compute resources
Term | Description |
CPU | A central processing unit (CPU) can contain multiple physical cores. Hyper-Threading (HT) technology turns one physical core into two logical processing cores. |
vCPU | A virtual CPU (vCPU) is a virtual processing core of a cloud computer. |
Software and configuration
Term | Description |
image | A package that provides the information required by a cloud computer, including the operating system and application initialization data. |
snapshot | A stateful data file that captures the data of a disk at a specific point in time. Snapshots are used to back up and restore data. |
policy | A set of rules that define the logon method, security groups, access domain permissions, the client access IP address whitelist, and the IP addresses on which the policy takes effect. A policy also provides security rules for disks, clipboards, watermarks, and screenshot prevention, which improve the security of data transmission between end user terminals and cloud computers. |
Directory services
Term | Description |
AD domain server | An Active Directory (AD) domain server, also known as an AD domain controller, is a server on which Active Directory is installed. It manages interactions in a user domain, including user logon and authentication. |
DNS server | A Domain Name System (DNS) server stores the domain names and corresponding IP addresses of all hosts on a network and resolves domain names to IP addresses. |
AD Connector | A component that connects to an enterprise AD system. An AD Connector registers an enterprise AD system with Elastic Desktop Service so that AD accounts and permission information can be synchronized. |
Access and connectivity
Term | Description |
terminal | The physical hardware that an end user uses to connect to a cloud computer. For example, a Windows computer, a Mac computer, a mobile phone, or an iPad. |
Alibaba Cloud Workspace terminal | An application or a channel used to connect to a cloud computer. For example, Windows client, iOS client, Android client, macOS client, and Web client. |
session | A logical connection that an end user establishes through Alibaba Cloud Workspace terminal with WUYING services, including Elastic Desktop Service, App Streaming, and Alibaba Cloud Drive. |