Huawei Fusion Cloud Desktop Solution
Fusion Cloud Desktop virtualizes and centralizes PC computing and storage resources in the data center, creating a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
Enable end users to access “virtual PCs” using Thin Clients (TCs) — access personal computers and mobile devices, while allowing the enterprise to maintain information security and high service reliability
Deploy an end-to-end solution that encompasses terminal, hardware, software, network, security, and consulting & design services
Transport IT infrastructure into the future with Huawei Fusion Cloud Desktop Solution — offers flexible access, highly efficient O&M, and stringent data security.
Conventional PCs have the following disadvantages:
Low information security and system security
Complicated management, high maintenance costs, and low O&M efficiency
Low resource utilization and ROI and high system complexity
High energy consumption, emission, and operating costs
The Huawei Fusion Cloud Desktop Solution is an end-to-end virtual desktop solution. This solution deploys computing and storage resources (including CPUs, hard disks, and memory) in a cloud data center and converts the physical resources into virtual resources using virtualization technologies. Virtual machines of different specifications are created using the virtual resources and provisioned to users as required. The Huawei Fusion Cloud Desktop Solution applies to various scenarios, such as ordinary office work, Over the Counter (OTC) transactions, branch offices, call centers, and training centers. Huawei also provides tailored solutions to meet the needs of different industries.
For small enterprises, Huawei offers the Compact VDI solution to enable quick deployment. The Compact VDI solution supports up to 100 virtual desktops using 1 to 2 servers.
For medium-sized enterprises and enterprises with remote and branch offices, Huawei offers the Fusion Cloud Desktop Appliance Solution to enable quick deployment and easy O&M. This solution supports up to 2,000 virtual desktops using a set of Huawei Fusion Cubes. Multiple sets of Fusion Cubes can be deployed with Huawei Fusion Manager, which implements centralized management, to support a maximum of 20,000 users.
For large-scale commercial deployment, Huawei offers the Fusion Cloud Desktop Solution. This solution supports heterogeneous hardware and offers high scalability. A set of Huawei Fusion Access supports up to 20,000 virtual desktops.
Huawei Fusion Cloud Desktop Architecture
Huawei Fusion Cloud Desktop Solution Highlights
Highly Security
The Huawei Fusion Cloud Desktop Solution uses a systematic multi-layered cloud-pipe-device-control security design that covers terminal security, network security, cloud platform security, and management security. This design focuses on prevention and uses monitoring and audit as auxiliary measures to ensure information security. This solution also ensures terminal-to-platform reliability:
Terminal security measures: terminal certificate, fingerprint, and USB key multi-factor authentication; integrated port and peripheral management
Network security measures: VM security group isolation, secure VPN connection, encrypted transmission, and security network access solution
Cloud platform security measures: distributed and hierarchical storage; data disk encryption; traceless data processing; virtualization virus prevention; desktop security watermark
Management security measures: rights- and domain-based management; separation of rights; administrator behavior monitoring and audit; bastion hosts; log audit
Reliability measures: network status automatic detection; automatic network connection after interruption; desktop agent software deletion prevention by mistake; key component HA; VM snapshot; service DR
Optimal Experience
For different scenarios, the Huawei desktop cloud solution optimizes high performance desktops to meet users' personalization requirements, providing superior experience.
The TC-based Soft Client, Soft Client-split solutions ensure carrier-class voice quality. The perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) averages at 3.8.
The lossless compression of non-natural images, along with the automatic identification of unchanged parts in images, ensures 4K HD display.
Intelligent video scenario recognition, dynamic video data auto-adaptation and frame rate adjustment, multimedia redirection and video hardware acceleration redirection technologies, as well as TCs with video decoding capabilities provide smooth HD video experience.
GPU passthrough/Hardware virtualization technology meets the performance requirements of professional drawing applications, such as AutoCAD and ProE.
Server-based computing (SBC) facilitates centralized application deployment, remote release, and mobile OA.
The solution is compatible with 5000+ service systems, 500+ peripherals, and 50+ TCs.
Agility and Efficiency
The Huawei Fusion Cloud Desktop Solution supports integrated hardware and software optimization, simplifies operation and maintenance (O&M), and balances the enterprise IT O&M cost and efficiency.
Service deployment duration can be reduced to 0.5 hours to achieve rapid service rollout and capacity expansion, and resources can be flexibly scheduled to meet service scalability demands. These features help improve IT service support capabilities and response speed.
A unified O&M management platform enables unified management of physical and virtual resources, desktop cloud services, faults, and alarms.
Various O&M automation tools provide automatic one-key collection and analysis of office environment information (CPUs, memory, and disks), health checks, user experience optimization, automatic user data migration, performance data collection and analysis, self-maintenance, and one-key log collection. These tools simplify O&M and improve O&M efficiency.
Automatic capacity expansion and hardware power-on automatic detection facilitates flexible and rapid expansion. Linked clone and full memory desktops improve user experience and management efficiency.
The desktop self-service enables enterprises to perform efficient and self-service management.
Huawei's core software has independent intellectual property rights. Open standard interfaces are compatible with various industry applications, and solutions can be rapidly customized to meet industry requirements.
Fusion Cloud Desktop Solution Main Features
High Security
Feature | Description | Strength |
Terminal Security | TCs are authenticated to prevent unauthorized access. | Ensures secure client access and control over port data policies. |
User access | Fingerprint login authentication is supported. | Offers a variety of access control methods, ensuring maximum data security. |
Transmission security | Portal over HTTPS is supported. All transmission from the portal is encrypted. | Allows information to be encrypted by different methods, making transmission secure. |
Network security | The internal network is physically isolated from external networks. | Improves security of the virtual desktop data and enhances user login security and reliability. |
Cloud platform security | The desktop cloud system is hardened, and the Linux operating system can be customized and hardened. | Ensures security and reliability of the Fusion Cloud desktop management system and VM user data. |
Data security | Data disks are encrypted to prevent data theft. | Prevents user data theft and malicious use. |
Management security | Security hardening for the management system OS and database | Supports security hardening for the management system and the OS of the management server to ensure security of the entire desktop cloud management system. |
High Reliability
Feature | Description | Strength |
Management node redundancy | Management nodes are deployed in active/standby mode. If a management node VM fails, the VM can be automatically recovered. Memory, CPU, and hard disk status of management nodes can be monitored automatically. | Ensures service continuity. |
Automatic backup and quick recovery of management data | Management data is automatically backed up. When configuration data is lost or damaged, the backup data can be used to quickly restore the desktop cloud system. | Ensures service continuity |
VM HA mechanism | The desktop cloud system monitors the VM operating status in real time after HA is enabled. When detecting that a PM is faulty, the system automatically migrates its VMs to a server that is running properly. This HA mechanism ensures quick recovery of the VMs. | Shortens the desktop fault recovery time, ensures service continuity, and improves work efficiency. |
Virtual desktop online backup | Individual users can manually or periodically back up important data to the backup system. If virtual desktop data is lost due to faults, such as disk damage and unexpected deletion, users can restore data using the data in the backup system. | Provides backup and data recovery options as a key service that preserves user data. |
Service DR | Global server load balancing (GLSB)-based DR and TC autonomous DR are supported. When the production center is faulty, desktop VMs in the DR center take over services to ensure service continuity | Shortens service interruptions to improve service system reliability |
Desktop connection reliability | Supports automatic desktop reconnection in the event of network failures or other faults. | Ensures system reliability by minimizing service downtime and limiting the impact of a fault. |
BSOD rapid detection | Fusion Manager monitors VM OSs for blue screen of death (BSOD) faults. When a VM OS experiences a BSOD fault, Fusion Manager automatically restarts the VM | Improves system reliability |
Server performance monitoring | The automatic hardware diagnosis function enables the desktop cloud system to monitor hardware status in real time. When detecting a fault of a hardware component, the system automatically isolates the component, performs a switchover, restarts the component, and reloads software to it. | Shortens service interruptions to improve service system reliability. |
Migration of disks on a faulty VM | When a VM fails to be started, its disks can be mounted to another VM. The user can log in to the new VM and back up disk data. | Ensures system reliability by minimizing service downtime and limiting the impact of a fault. |
Black box | A black box is embedded in the desktop cloud system to collect system logs automatically. When a fault occurs in the system, the black box collects dying gasps in the system. | Provides a record of the system information to assist maintenance personnel in locating and rectifying the problem. |
Optimal Experience
Feature | Description | Strength |
Carrier-class voice quality | SoftClient-split, TC-based SoftClient, and hardphone solutions are supported, providing high voice quality with a low delay. The delay is less than 500 ms and the PESQ averages 3.8. | Provides carrier-class voice quality and helps build a reliable, environmentally friendly call center system featuring centralized management. |
Graphics | The Huawei desktop cloud solution provides GPU passthrough and hardware virtualization solutions to support high-performance 2D/3D graphics processing and be compatible 2D/3D graphics software such as AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS MAX, ProE, and Greo. | Enables high-performance graphics processing, helping to resolve the maintenance, information security and concurrent operation problems of traditional graphics workstations |
100 Mbit/s HD video editing | The GPU passthrough solution, with the Huawei Desktop Protocol (HDP), supports 120 Mbit/s HD video editing. | Meets Omni media editing requirements. Video rendering and 120 Mbit/s HD video editing are supported on cloud workstations. |
Multimedia playback | Multimedia redirection, with video decoding capabilities on the client, provides users with smooth playback experience. HD video playback is supported. | Delivers a multimedia experience rivaling that of a local PC. |
HD display | Lossless HD desktop display with the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) greater than 50,000 dB and the structural similarity index measurement (SSIM) at 9999.55% | Provides HD display experience. |
Server-based computing (SBC) | SBC-based shared desktop release | Centrally deploys and remotely releases applications to provide quick deployment and centralized O&M and protect data security. |
VIP desktop | CPU and memory guarantee and real-time monitoring are provided for VIP desktops so that VIP desktop users can enjoy better desktop experience. | Ensures the use experience of key customers. |
Unified printing | Third-party network solutions are integrated to enable unified VM printing. | Reduces resource usage and improves user experience by removing the need for driver installation. |
Support for multiple peripheral devices | Device mapping and port mapping modes can be used to support multiple dedicated peripherals, control virtual desktops, and share local resources. | Delivers an experience using multiple peripherals equaling that of a local PC. |
Efficient O&M
Feature | Description | Strength |
Virtual desktop task management | Scheduled tasks can be created to create, start, shut down, restart, wake up, or hibernate VMs in batches. | Improves maintenance efficiency by automating VM management. |
Desktop system monitoring | Fusion Sphere monitors virtual resource clusters, server hosts, and VMs in real time. Hardware and software resources can be displayed in graphs. Fusion Access monitors VM CPU, memory, and network resource usage, and allows administrators to query VM status, unused VMs, and user login information. Reports can be exported, and northbound APIs are provided to facilitate self-service monitoring. | Improves resource management efficiency by allowing administrators to reclaim idle resources. |
Unified Linux deployment | Desktop management components ITA, WI, HDC, DB, and License can be deployed in the Linux OS in a one-click or step-by-step manner. | Improves installation, deployment, and management efficiency by simplifying system configuration |
Wizard-based ITA initial configuration | A wizard guides user through the ITA initial configuration. Initial information such as virtualization environment, domain, desktop component, and alarm component information are automatically configured after proper information is entered based on the wizard | Simplifies the initial configuration and improves efficiency. |
Unified user interface (UI) management | Fusion Manager integrates desktop cloud service management, virtualization platform O&M, and hardware management functions. | Improves O&M efficiency by using a unified management WebUI. |
Template creation tool | Wizard-based VM template creation automatically completes desktop agent program installation, system optimization, and parameter configuration. | Improves template creation efficiency |
Unified management system upgrade | Administrators can upgrade management systems in batches by running the upgrade tool on a PC or laptop without logging in to the server or VM where the management system is installed. | Rapidly upgrades virtual desktops and improves O&M efficiency. |
User experience optimization tool | The user experience optimization tool library provides the following functions: risk check, system optimization, audio optimization, query of historical performance cases, and software compatibility check. | Improves O&M efficiency and reduces costs. |
Branch office management | The branch office networking supports local deployment of remote modules. The VMs of branch offices can be provisioned and maintained in a unified manner, including hardware management and monitoring, virtual resource management and monitoring, centralized alarm and operation log management, single sign-on (SSO), and TC management. | Implements centralized virtual desktop O&M and desktop service provisioning in branch offices. |
Unified Huawei desktop agent (HDA) software upgrade | The desktop cloud system supports automatic HDA software upgrade. | Facilitates efficient software updates and management from a central location. |
User self-service maintenance console | Users can use the self-service maintenance console to rectify faults when they fail to log in to VMs. | Ensures convenient and quick maintenance, reducing system administrator workload. |
O&M tool | A whole range of tools are provided to collect desktop system planning information. | Improves project planning and O&M efficiency. |
Lazydesk | Users can use virtual desktops after powering on the TCs | Provides the same login experience as PCs. |
Monitor automatic energy saving | When a virtual desktop screen is locked, the local monitor is automatically shut down and enters sleep | Reduces energy consumption without affecting conference or video playback experience. |
Full memory desktop | System disks of VMs reside in the memory so that VM disk read/write operations are converted into memory operations, which improves user experience. VMs can be restored after shutdown. | Improves management efficiency in public places such as schools, training institutions, and hotels. User experience exceeds that of a local physical machine. |
Efficient Resource Rescue
Feature | Description | Strength |
Memory overcommitment | Hypervisor scheduling enables memory overcommitment without affecting user experience. | Allows VMs to use more memory than the space available on the physical host without deteriorating user experience. |
Linked clone | A shared read-only parent volume is used to provide the original VM OS, which reduces the system disk space usage and system disk capacity configuration. Linked clones also support unified software upgrades and system restoration. | Reduces deployment and maintenance costs, improving desktop maintenance efficiency. |
Storage thin provisioning | Physical storage space can be virtualized into more virtual storage space. The physical storage space is occupied only when data is written into the virtual storage space. | Optimizes storage space usage by allocating space as required |
Smart cache (iCache) | In linked clone virtual desktop scenarios, iCache technology is used to dynamically identify and cache user shared storage resources and parent volume hotspot data in the memory, which greatly improves data access performance. | Improves I/O performance and accelerates batch VM startup. |
Dynamic resource scheduling (DRS) | DRS policies define scheduling thresholds and the effective periods in a cluster. In the effective period, if the CPU load of a computing server exceeds the scheduling threshold, the system will migrate some VMs to other computing servers with a low CPU load. | Ensures CPU load balance among computing servers. |
Dynamic power management | If only a few VMs are used in a cluster, the VMs can be aggregated to a few hosts in the cluster and the other hosts can be stopped. This helps achieve energy conservation and emission reduction. When more VMs are required, the system dynamically powers on hosts | Allows the system to be energy-saving and eco-friendly. |
Elastic resource reuse | Services use system resources on the cloud platform in different hours to maximize resource usage. For example, a user uses a virtual desktop to deal with office work at daytime and releases the occupied computing resources at night. Then, the system can use the released computing resources to process other services, such as image rendering and supercomputing, at night. After completing these services, the system releases the computing resources again for virtual desktop users to use the next day. Scheduled tasks, along with elastic resource scheduling, enable the reuse of desktop cloud system resources. | Maximizes cloud platform resource usage |
Open Interfaces
Feature | Description | Strength |
System management interface | With Fusion Manager northbound interfaces, enterprises can incorporate their desktop cloud system into an upper-layer management system. This facilitates centralized management of the cloud platform and allows for optimal use of cloud platform resources. | Enables third-party upper-layer management systems to centrally manage and maintain the cloud platform. |
Service provisioning interface | Users can customize service provisioning portals by using the virtual desktop service provisioning interface provided by Fusion Access. | Enables the desktop cloud system to interconnect with third-party management systems. |
Self-service interface | Fusion Access provides self-service northbound interfaces for enterprise platform integration, and service provisioning and charging in desktop leasing. It also provides third-party open SDK suites and guides for self-service desktop operations. | Enables customers and third parties to implement secondary development on the desktop leasing capability. Individual tenants can easily apply for and maintain desktops |
