PC Farm (Bare metal)

In addition to a cloud solution, DaDesktop can give you access to bare metal physical Desktops or Servers.

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

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

Additionally, this solution can be used with an existing physical classroom with minimal modifications. This lets the trainer set up the classroom without needing to be there in person.

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

Requirement for onsite deployment

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

 

You can give it a go by choosing Metal PC when creating a Standalone or Fresh-start desktop.