PC Farm (Bare metal)

In addition to a cloud solution, DaDesktop can provide you with access to bare metal physical desktops or servers.

This is for one physical machine per participant scenarios and has been used in the following use cases, where participants need access to:

1. the entire server without virtualisation for performance or licence reasons (ONAP, OpenStack)
2. devices which cannot be virtualised (some GPUs, Mellanox cards where firmware-related changes are covered in the course, other network equipment, etc...)

Additionally, this solution can be used with an existing physical classroom with minimal modifications. This enables the trainer to prepare the classroom in Australia without needing to be physically present.

The Cloud Desktop used in the cloud can be directly utilised and deployed to participants' physical machines.

Requirement for onsite deployment

This solution requires the purchase of physical control cables (called ddnexus), costing around 100USD each per desktop.

 

You can try it out by selecting Metal PC when creating a Standalone or Fresh-start desktop.