Virtual Desktop
Leverage the security, scalability, and convenience of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to deploy managed virtual desktops and access them from anywhere while keeping your data and applications safe. Virtual desktops enable a standardized, controlled, and supportable experience at low administration costs.
Why choose a virtual desktop on OCI?
Secure
Protect access to your company resources and information from unauthorized parties. Running a virtual desktop on OCI keeps the data within OCI; only a view into the desktop is displayed remotely.
Flexible
OCI offers flexible VM shapes that scale from 1 core to 80 cores and 1 GB to 64 GB of memory per core for rightsizing VMs for your application needs and avoiding wasted resources. The OCI Secure Desktops hibernation feature allows virtual desktops to automatically stop after inactivity and to resume their state when the user reconnects.
Simple
Automate the provisioning of virtual desktops, regardless of the endpoint device. Users can easily switch endpoint devices with no change required in the virtual desktop. Even losing an endpoint device is simply resolved by just using another endpoint device.
OCI Secure Desktops service
OCI Secure Desktops is a managed service in OCI that lets you implement desktop as a service. It provides a centrally controlled deployment of virtual desktops running Oracle Linux or Microsoft Windows for the operating system.
OCI Secure Desktops lets you select a virtual machine shape to match your desired performance and capacity. Data and applications are kept safe inside OCI and access to other OCI services is fast and convenient. You can rapidly deploy desktops from golden images to support increasing demand. As an edge service, no VPN is needed. Users directly connect to OCI Secure Desktops from their location. Customers can create pools of virtual desktops containing as few as 10 or up to thousands of them.
Keep your users and your data protected but globally accessible
Enhance your security posture
Create an airgap between you and the outside world
Because virtual desktops only transmit a view of the desktop, no data needs to be stored locally on a user’s endpoint device. The desktop screens are delivered via a high-speed, secure, proprietary protocol and data is unreadable over the internet. This airgap security helps prevent potential malware on the endpoint device from accessing the virtual desktop, keeping your applications and data protected. In addition, if the endpoint device is lost, stolen, or damaged, only the device needs to be replaced.
Choose your data’s geography
Remain compliant by keeping data in-region
You choose the desired OCI region for your data and applications to remain compliant with applicable regulations and requirements, but your users can be located anywhere on the globe. With virtual desktops, the data remains within the OCI region and enables compliance while only a view of the virtual desktop is transmitted to your users. Virtual desktops help you keep your data secure while allowing global access.
Simplify endpoint administration
Deploy a wide variety of compatible device endpoints
Virtual desktops are available via a supported web browser or a lightweight client application that runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux desktops. This wide support enables compatibility with a large ecosystem of endpoint devices, such as dedicated desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.
Adapt to new workload demands
Rightsize your desktops
Pick any VM shape in OCI that supports OCI Secure Desktops, including the option for bursting. The hibernation feature increases cost-efficiency by automatically stopping desktops when not in use. The multi-monitor feature enhances productivity for developers and other power users.
Reference architectures with virtual desktops
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Blog
New features are available for increased security and flexibility, including private endpoint access, hibernation, flexible and burstable shapes, and multi-monitor support.
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Reference Architecture
Learn how to set up a new tenancy for OCI Secure Desktops and create your first secure desktop pool.
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Reference Architecture
Securely deliver and scale virtual desktop computing environments with Oracle Exadata Database Service for a virtually unlimited virtual desktop deployment.
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Reference Architecture
Deliver and scale virtual desktop computing environments securely with a high performance cloud computing architecture.
Virtual desktops frequently asked questions
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What operating systems are supported for OCI Secure Desktops?
Oracle Linux 7 and 8 are supported operating systems. Oracle Linux 9 support is in progress. Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 are supported operating systems. These require you to participate in Microsoft’s bring your own license program.
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What is the cost of OCI Secure Desktops?
Each desktop is $20 a month, with a minimum of 10 desktops. Any compute, storage, and network consumption for running desktops is additional. Any applicable license, such as for Microsoft Windows, is additional. Please consult the OCI cost estimator.
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Which types of OCI shapes can be used to run OCI Secure Desktops?
OCI Secure Desktops supports both virtual machines (VMs) and dedicated virtual hosts (DVHs). The default setting for Windows desktop pools is DVH. If your Microsoft license agreement allows the use of non-dedicated virtual machines in a cloud environment, the default DVH setting can be changed by the desktop administrator.
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Which shapes are supported by OCI Secure Desktops?
OCI Secure Desktops supports all available AMD- and Intel-based shapes.
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* OCI Secure Desktops isn't available in Oracle Cloud Free Tier.