HP Xw460c - ProLiant - Blade Workstation Optimization Manual page 3

Figure 1. The HP Blade Workstation Solution consists of rack-mounted blade workstations and client computers
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Blade Workstations
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
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.
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