Personal computer supply system on demand and method

Abstract

The invention discloses a controller for personal computer supply on demand. The controller comprises a machine maintenance device for allocating a computation hardware equipment capable of meeting user's needs from a computation pool including a plurality of remote-boot computer hardware equipments according to user's needs to the hardware equipments; a software maintenance device for preparing software environment applied to the user in a memory pool according to user's needs to software environment, wherein, the machine maintenance device is also used for setting the boot address of the allocated computation hardware equipment as the prepared software environment, and booting the computation hardware equipment with the software environment; and a user input / output processor for switching the input / output of the booted computation hardware equipment to a customer equipment, so as to form a personal computer of the user. The computation hardware equipment is preferably a blade PC. The invention also discloses a system for personal computer supply on demand comprising the controller, and a corresponding method thereof.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to the field of computers, and in particular to an on-demand personal computer provisioning system and method. Background technique [0002] In today's enterprise environment, provisioning and managing personal computing platforms is a constant challenge for business and IT management. In the traditional independent personal computer supply solution, each employee in the enterprise has their own personal computers, and these personal computers are interconnected into local area networks, intranets, etc., and are connected to external networks such as the Internet through gateways; and the IT team of the enterprise is responsible for Maintenance and management of these personal computers. This solution has the following problems: high machine acquisition cost, enterprises always have to purchase and upgrade users' desktop personal computers for necessary but infrequent performance requirements; low machine utiliz...

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Problems solved by technology

This solution has the following problems: high machine acquisition cost, enterprises always have to purchase and upgrade users' desktop personal computers for necessary but infrequent performance requirements; low machine utilization, in many enterprises, In fact, more than 30% of desktop personal computers are idle at any one time, which causes a great waste of computer resources

That is to say, in the existing blade PC solution, although personal computers are concentrated together as blade PCs, management, maintenance and operation costs are reduced, security is improved, and through the sharing of computer blades among different users It improves the utilization rate of computing resources, and reduces user desktop space occupation, heat generation, noise, etc., but it still has the following disadvantages: in the existing blade PC solutions, in order to save computing resources, the general blade PC It is shared between users or tasks, so that users do not have their own dedicated operating system and application environment, and users or tasks that share the working environment will have a serious interaction, for example, a user needs to install a new application, infection Viruses, or wrong operations, etc., will have an impact on the shared working environment, thereby adversely affecting the work of other users

On the other hand, if the method of assigning specific blade PCs to specific users or tasks is adopted, the utilization rate of computing resources will be reduced and the cost of ownership of computing resources will be increased.

In any case, users of existing blade PCs can only accept the pre-configured working environment, but cannot obtain their own dedicated and customized working environment

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