Terminologies & Definitions

  • HyLabs (Reservation Management System or RMS): HyLabs is reservation and schedule based personal virtual desktop delivery system.

  • Types of Roles based HyLabs users

    • Super Administrator: System defined role having all the privileges on HyWorks Controller.
    • HyWorks super administrator must add one user with permission of HyLabs Admin to allow HyLabs management and configuration.
    • Reservation Admin: Predefined system role with full privileges to manage HyLabs, including course, self-study, reservation creations, modification, and deletion.
    • Incharge: Incharge is faculty responsible for course and basically an AD user which can be added as an incharge while creating course.
      • Incharge has full control on reservation creations, modifications, and deletions.
      • Incharge can perform all power operations on Gold Master VMs but cannot add/update settings/ delete Gold Master VM.
    • Assistant: An assistant is like faculty, an AD user with no permissions to create reservations, add/update or delete Gold Master VMs.
    • Participants: Students as an end-user from active directory are referred to as participants, who are going to view and connect to their respective reserved VMs from courses or self-study. Participants will also be able to see announcements and their account settings.

  • Course: Course is a lesson or subject, led by one or more instructors (Incharges), assistants and students (participants in HyLabs)

  • Classroom: The course is run under a classroom.

  • Gold Master: To be imported into HyLabs system from session provider (vCenter Server) and being used as source VM for creating clones for reservations.

  • Reservation: Reservation in HyLabs refers to a pre-scheduled delivery of dedicated VDI desktops to end users. These schedules can be created from HyLabs portal or can be imported from CSV.

  • Schedule Pattern: Defines recurring pattern of the reservation, can be of two types:

    • One Time: The reservation will be executed only once and then it gets expired, will not be executed again.
    • Recurring: The reservation will be scheduled to occur repeatedly over a period defined as Start Date and End Date in reservation. Recurring reservations can either be scheduled to occur

  • Dedicated Session Providers: HyWorks terminologies for virtualization platforms can be used as source of desktops to be delivered. HyWorks supports Microsoft (Hyper-V and SCVMM servers) and VMware (ESXi or vCenter Servers) as dedicated session providers

    • HyLabs is currently supported with vCenter Server only

  • Self-study: Participant created one-time reservations with specified Gold Masters for self-study

  • Course Self-study: Reservations created by participants but using the same reservations for courses being studied by students.

  • DVM: Desktop VM. HyWorks managed virtual machines on hypervisors

  • Reserved VMs: VMs deployed as part of reservations delivery and managed by HyWorks/ HyLabs

  • Deployment: Process of desktop creation on hypervisors in HyWorks

  • Desktop Pool: Group of Desktop VMs in HyWorks for managing with same configurations and assigning them to clients

  • Connection Profile: HyWorks’ connection and timeout attributes collection which can be assigned at multiple levels to decide connection experience for end-users.