Research Article

Investigation Methodology of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for IoT

Table 2

VDI components.

ComponentCitrixVMwareMicrosoftRole

HypervisorXenServerESXi serverHyper-VCreate and manage virtual machines

Hypervisor management systemXenCentervCenter serverSCVMM
(system center virtual machine manager)
Manage the hypervisor

Connection management systemDDC
(desktop delivery controller)
View ManagerRDCM
(remote desktop connection manager)
Connect and assign a virtual machine to a user

Authentication management systemActive DirectoryActive DirectoryActive DirectoryRegister (create/delete) and authenticate the user

Virtual machine access programWeb browser
(Citrix receiver should be installed)
View client or
web browser
Web browserAccess to virtual machine