Managing multiple desktops can be chaos...

Unless you have Double-Take Flex from Vision Solutions. Now you can manage multiple desktops and servers from one simple console and thereby restore your sanity while giving you more time focus on other important projects.

• Turn Windows server storage into an iSCSI SAN, allowing you to remove the disk storage from your desktops and centralize on your SAN
• Create shared boot volumes that can be provisioned once and assigned to many machines
• Rapidly deploy, provision and re-provision desktops and servers on-demand

Flexible Provisioning

• Provision new servers easily and move them to different hardware
• Place the right workload at the right place at the right time
• Boot completely different operating system images then change them quickly for other tasks
• Switch between boot volumes according to task
• Create one unique boot volume per machine or one boot volume shared among multiple machines
• Render shared boot volumes read-only for the end-user
• Reboot the desktop to return to a pristine state
• Share a boot volume but maintain a private and persistent write cache
• Boot from backup boot volumes on the SAN or iSCSI SAN snapshots
• Perform diskless boot from iSCSI
• Centralize the management of system images by eliminating image copying and manual hard-drive update processes.
• Centralize all management of the remaining storage devices in your enterprise
• Boot a virtual machine’s guest operating system directly from an iSCSI SAN fabric

Centralised IT Management

• Manage desktops and servers from one console
• Gain instant flexibility by separating the operating system and data from the hardware
• See your personal settings when you login to any workstation (with RES® PowerFuse add-on)
• Separates state from compute devices and allows them to run from iSCSI SAN.
• Share read-only images across large numbers of desktops
• Keep processing power close to your users
• Change only one image and all desktops instantly receive the new software.
• Run Microsoft Windows 7, XP Pro, Vista without a local hard drive
• Stream one centrally managed PC to all the PCs in an environment
• Eliminate the need to upgrade and patch multiple PCs
• Provide quick provisioning on server and blade platforms; unpack and rack new servers and put them in production within seconds
• Allow computers with similar workload needs to share a common bootable image, greatly reducing the total amount of storage required by avoiding the duplication inherent in each image’s common operating system and application binaries
• Store user data on database and file servers to keep the images stateless
• Maintain a separate writeable cache on each computer to store its own unique configuration such as computer name and network settings
• Keep the computer’s boot image in a read-only state with non-persistent, writeable cache to prevent corruption by accidental misuse or malicious attacks
• Use industry standard communication protocols and your entire existing infrastructure
• Doesn’t require any specialized hardware for cost-effective total cost of ownership
• Uses your existing iSCSI storage by building out LUNs and then pointing clients to that storage
• Runs on any Microsoft Windows computer and provides iSCSI target services to your network
• Creates iSCSI disks that reside as files on that server’s disks in the Microsoft VHD (Virtual Hard Drive) format
• Make target LUNs available to your boot-from-SAN clients using cost-effective Ethernet and IP protocol

Simplified Recovery

• Boot failed machines from a snapshot or copied boot volume on the SAN
• Provide easy bare-metal deployment and disaster recovery services
• Create shared boot volumes that can be provisioned once and assigned to many machines
• Set up iSCSI storage for use by server or desktop systems in five clicks
• Allow multiple servers or workstations to access the same shared volumes
• Duplicate servers by simply cloning volumes using tools within the iSCSI storage
• Set up segregated data storage on a second LUN to retain data on SAN or NAS for increased security and backup

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More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Double-Take Flex