HP Xw460c Session Allocation Manager 2.1 -- Optimizing your HP Blade Workstati - Page 3

Figure 1. The HP Blade Workstation Solution consists of rack-mounted blade workstations and client computers HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstations Client computers Site #1 Client computers Data Center Site #2 For customers who need a remote computing solution to replace business desktops, HP offers the HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI), which employs rack-mounted blade PCs and low-cost client computers. For information on CCI, visit http://www.hp.com/go/cci. HP also offers virtualized desktop computing resources, based on the HP virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). With VDI, OS virtualization software executes on a server to allow a desktop OS, such as Microsoft® Windows® XP, to run on the server. To support multiple users, multiple copies of Windows can be run on a single server, each in their own virtualized OS environment. As with blade workstations and CCI, low-cost client computers are used to view and interact with the desktop sessions. For information on VDI, visit http://www.hp.com/go/vdi. When applied to these remote computing solutions, SAM enhances: • Manageability-SAM supports management of both the remote computing resources and client computers, helping to ensure the optimal assignment of resources to each user. SAM also increases system reliability through features such as automatic failover protection. • Ease-of-use-SAM enhances the user experience by allowing the user to log into SAM once, and then be automatically connected to either pre-assigned remote computing resources or to dynamically-assigned computing resources. When users move to a different location, SAM can be configured to automatically re-connect users to their previous remote computing resources.