HIGH PERFORMANCE INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE USING VOLATILE MEMORY ARRAYS

摘要

Certain aspects of the disclosure relate to a system and method for performing intelligent virtual desktop infrastructure (iVDI) using volatile memory arrays. The system has a hypervisor server and a storage server in communication via a file sharing protocol. A random access memory (RAM) disk is launched on a volatile memory array using a RAM disk driver. The RAM disk driver then assigns local and remote storages of the storage server as primary and secondary backup storages for the RAM disk. A group of virtual machine (VM) images is deployed to the RAM disk, and deduplication is performed on the VM images to release some memory space of the RAM disk. The deploying and deduplicating of the VM images continues repeatedly until the RAM disk is almost full. Then, the VM images in the RAM disk are copied to the backup storages as backup copies.

主权项

1. A method for performing intelligent virtual desktop infrastructure (iVDI) using volatile memory arrays, comprising:
launching a random access memory (RAM) disk on a volatile memory array using a RAM disk driver; assigning a local storage physically located at a storage server as a primary backup storage for the RAM disk, wherein the storage server is connected to a hypervisor server via a file sharing protocol, and the hypervisor server is configured to execute a hypervisor; deploying a first plurality of virtual machine (VM) images to the RAM disk; deduplicating the first plurality of VM images in the RAM disk to release a first memory space of the RAM disk; deploying a second plurality of VM images to the RAM disk and to occupy at least a part of the first memory space; deduplicating the second plurality of VM images in the RAM disk; and copying the deduplicated first plurality of VM images and the deduplicated second plurality of VM images from the RAM disk to the primary backup storage.