Elastic Desktop Service:Terms

Term

Description

Administrator

A person who creates, manages, and maintains cloud computers. For example, the O&M engineer of Company A.

Console

A platform where administrators perform management, control, and O&M operations. On this platform, administrators can create and manage office networks and templates, manage users, images, cloud computer templates, applications, snapshots, and policies, and perform routine O&M operations such as monitoring sessions or cloud computers.

End user

A person who uses cloud computers. For example, a student at University A.

Terminal

The physical hardware that an end user uses to connect to a cloud computer. For example, a Windows PC, a Mac, a mobile phone, or an iPad.

WUYING Terminal

An application or channel used to connect to cloud computers.

For example, Windows Client, iOS Client, Android Client, macOS Client, and Web Client.

Region

A region is a geographical location where a data center is located. Regions are typically named after the cities where their data centers are located. For example, the data center of the China (Qingdao) region is in the city of Qingdao.

Office network

A collection of operating environment configurations for cloud computers. These configurations include the division of secure office networks, user account systems, and Internet bandwidth.

Cloud computer

A virtual desktop service in the cloud. A cloud computer consists of basic components such as vCPUs, memory, an operating system, a network, and disks.

Shared cloud computer group (formerly cloud computer pool)

A collection of cloud computers. You can centrally modify the specifications, policies, and images of the cloud computers within multiple shared cloud computers. Cloud computers within multiple shared cloud computers can be automatically created or released based on an auto scaling policy.

CPU

CPU stands for central processing unit. A CPU can contain several physical cores. Hyper-threading (HT) technology can turn one physical core into two logical processing cores.

vCPU

vCPU stands for virtual CPU. A vCPU is a virtual processing core of a cloud computer.

Cloud computer policy

Defines rules such as logon methods, security groups, endpoint access permissions, client access IP address whitelists, and effective IP addresses for the policy. It also provides security policies for disks, the clipboard, watermarks, and screen capture prevention to improve the security of data transmission between end user terminals and cloud computers.

Image

Provides the information required by a cloud computer, including the operating system and initial application data.

Snapshot

A snapshot is a data state file of a disk at a specific point in time. You can use snapshots for data backup and recovery.

Cloud computer template

A cloud computer template contains the required configuration information for a cloud computer, including the image, specifications (such as vCPU and memory), GPU memory, system disk, and data disk.

AD domain server

An AD domain controller. It is a server with Active Directory (AD) installed that is responsible for managing interactions within a user domain, including the user logon process and identity verification.

DNS server

A DNS server. It is a server that stores the domain names and corresponding IP addresses of all hosts on the network and can convert domain names into IP addresses.

AD Connector

A component used to connect to an enterprise AD system. It registers the enterprise AD with Elastic Desktop Service to sync AD accounts and permission information.

Session

A logical connection established between an end user and WUYING Workspace resources or App Streaming through a Windows Client, macOS Client, or Web Client.