A Method to Update the Application Version in Cloud-hosted Virtual Desktops Under Desktop Pool Environment
Jin Gu, Yuan Yuan, Wang Bao · 2018
With the development of information technology, enterprise users have higher and higher demand for IT terminal system.Meanwhile virtualization technology is having a breakthrough.As an emerging technology as well as a representative of virtualization technology the cloud-hosted virtual desktops technology has been developing rapidly and is widely used in manufacturing enterprises in recent years because of the convenience for management it brought to IT administrators.The realization of the cloud-hosted virtual desktops environment depends on large-scaled use of desktop pools or linked clone technology.However, the above ways are not perfectly compatible with an application release method called Click once which is often adopted by MES production system deployment in the factory, resulting in frequent and repeating download behaviors of applications which created unnecessary waste of IT Infrastructure resources.This paper studies the current situation and proposes an innovative method to update the application in cloud-hosted virtual desktops under desktop pool environment based on the characteristics of business process.