Double-Take Flex

Centralized, Manageable, Affordable Virtual Desktops

Double-Take Flex reduces the time and expense of desktop management, while increasing the level of control that you have over your current infrastructure. By creating a virtual desktop infrastructure and allowing shared access to your network storage, desktop images can easily be centralized. With the RES PowerFuse add-on, users retain their individual workspace environment regardless of where they log in, while IT gains control over application permissions, peripheral settings, and security settings. Whether you need a better way to migrate data and servers, backup systems, recover on-demand, ensure the availability of critical systems or manage corporate desktops, we have a simple, affordable solution that’s right for you.

Double-Take Flex powers existing desktops and thin clients to run Microsoft Windows 7, XP Pro, or Vista - all without a local hard drive. Double-Take Flex provisions one centrally managed PC image and streams it to all your PCs, drastically reducing administrative effort. Using streaming desktop images, Double-Take Flex reduces time-consuming and costly management tasks such as OS upgrades, patch management or new application installations. Streaming desktop and or server images are configured centrally and one time only on the Double-Take Flex server.

Key Benefits:

• Centralized management – Double-Take Flex VDI Virtual Desktop infrastructure is managed in your data center
• Simplified recovery - reduces the cost of managing workloads, replacing failed drives or restoring drives to their original state
• Fast desktop deployment – shared master images can be assigned to many machines with a simple drag-and-drop command
• Low-cost storage – using industry standard iSCSI storage or, Double-Take Flex can turn any Windows® server into an iSCSI SAN
• Familiar user experience - workstations use local processing so users don’t have to wait for network cycles
• Configurable desktops – Using the RES PowerFuse add-on, an individual user’s workspace is decoupled to manage profile settings

Manage desktops ? Is this familiar ?

Then how about a simple to deploy and manage desktop or server image that is stored once, on a san accessible by many ?

What is it ?

Technical Detail

Create a master image.  Point desktops or servers to boot from it!

Different lesson, same classroom ? Alternate images!

Easy job on the helpdesk!  Reboot, done!

Update master image.  Apply against clients. Reboot!  All the patching is done!

Why centralize boot images ?

There’re many flavours of Virtual Desktop Infrastructures on the market today.  Most however, do not utilize the processing capability of users’s desktop such as true  graphics, memory, and peripheral  devices.  Flex offers true local experience to the user, but with all the benefits of centralized  computing.

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Double-Take Flex Data Sheets and Feature Guides Double-Take Flex Data-Sheet Double-Take Flex Feature Guide Double-Take Flex Solutions Guide - Managed Desktops

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