Openstack Public Cloud – Flexible Engine

oneclickTM VDI solution – Remote access to cloud-based office applications

Product Overview

A virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is an efficient way to access the usual office applications. The applications are run at a central data centre location of Orange Business and accessed by your users remotely.

The oneclick™ VDI solution provides automated technical setup of the Flexible Engine servers and streams the applications from the servers to users in an innovative process. The high-performance and encrypted streaming protocol enables painless remote working.

Users connect to their cloud desktop or individual applications via the highly secure access solution from oneclick™ by the means of granted rights. The oneclick™ VDI is so secure that it comes with a cyber assurance from Württembergische Versicherung AG.

Benefits

Modern, digital workplace. Rapid deployment, freedom of device choice, easy and customisable access to applications and data, and the ability to work anywhere, anytime increase competitiveness and your attractiveness as an employer.

Easy to use. Enter users via the management console or import them via CSV or AD connection. oneclick™ creates the new users including credentials and group transfer in the Active Directory of the VDI. The solution is intuitive to use, so no extensive training is necessary.

Cost-optimized. Powerful cloud desktops at affordable prices: Compared to an on-premises IT landscape, other desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offerings and the sum of the individual solutions, our managed packages save you up to 30% on total cost of ownership due to automation and economies of scale.

Consistent provisioning. With the oneclick™ digital workplace it makes no difference whether your employees access their applications and data from the office, home office or on the road. oneclick™ enables uniform delivery, availability, administration and security

Instantly available. Simplify the provision of Windows applications and data for distributed teams, home offices and mobile users via Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). With our turnkey packages, we take care of setup, operation and maintenance up to operating system level.

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Use cases

Inpatient and Outpatient Care

  • Migration of outdated, local infrastructure to the cloud.
  • Deployment of the Medifox industry solution.
  • Change of end devices to Chromebooks, saving costs and no longer storing data locally.

Manufacturing

  • Web-based access to the SAP GUI and other applications in an isolated, protected environment by employees in production, support and sales.
  • Saving of VPN connections
  • Mapping of complex print scenarios.

Retail

  • Introduction of an e-commerce solution at several hundred branch locations.
  • The required software JTL could be rolled out via cloud infrastructure by the business department without tying up resources of the internal IT.
  • Integration of USB scanners.

Register

If your company does not already use oneclick™ VDI service you can register for a oneclick™ Admin account to configure the service for your users with the following steps :

  1. Register for your Orange Flexible Engine account if you do not have one
  2. Log in to your Customer Space
  3. Select oneclick™ in the Catalog for your Contract
  4. You will be sent credentials for your oneclick™ Admin account by email with instructions how to configure the service for your users

You can find instructions here how to configure the oneclick™ service

Licenses

The following license model allows you to address all your VDI needs with oneclick™.

Users Licenses :

« User Basic » permits one user to connect to one destination. This is the most common usecase because generally one user is accessing only one VDI desktop.

« User Professional » permits one user to connect to multiple destinations, more specifically when the user need to access multiple VDI, apps, or website apps.

App Licenses :

« Standard App » permits users to access destinations such as a full desktop environment, an application or a website. The « App licenses » can be use with « add-ons ».

« Add-ons » permits additional features such as universal printing driver, high performance streaming, multi-monitor, etc.

Flexible Engine Infra :

« ECS » (or Elastic Cloud Server) is a Virtual Machine with computing and memory resources plus operating system. Various flavors are available with different specification to meet different needs. See here for more info.

« EVS » (or Elastic Volume Storage) is persistent block storage which is available in different specification and sizes according to your needs. See here for more info.

« EIP » is an Elastic public IP addresses which can be allocated to cloud servers which need to be exposed to the internet. See here for more info.

The following examples show services required for common usecases :

Single user on single VDI desktop

The most common usecase of VDI where the user has basic needs such as document editing, web browsing, etc. One machine (FE ECS) belongs to one oneclick user.

Subscribe to a User basic license + standard app for oneclickTM, plus VDI Optimised ECS + EVS + EIP infrastructure for Flexible Engine.

Multiple users each on their own VDI desktop

A small company with multiple users, of whom around 80% are logged in at any one time, with basic needs such as document editing, web browsing, etc. Requires Microsoft Remote Desktop Services integrated with oneclickTM to provide multiple users with one machine each (multiple user sessions).

Subscribe to a User basic license + standard app + Software Access Licence for Microsoft RDS for each User for oneclickTM, plus General Purpose ECS (high specification) + EVS + EIP infrastructure for Flexible Engine.

Single user on a single desktop with demanding apps like CAD/BIM

The user has a high performant machine with GPU for resource intensive applications and greater volume of outbound traffic.

Subscribe to User basic license + standard app + High performance addons for oneclickTM, plus GPU VDI Optimised ECS + EVS + EIP infrastructure for Flexible Engine.

Users Licenses :

App Licenses :

Flexible Engine Infra :

Example for a single user on a single VDI desktop

ServicePrice / month

VDI Optimised ECS eg. s3v.medium.4 (including windows licence)          24.00 €
oneclick Standard App (pay per licence)             2.00 €
oneclick User Basic licence (pay per licence)             6.75 €
EVS (50gb)  10gb for user data             2.15 €
EIP             2.56 €
Outbound traffic (200gb)          14.06 €
Total / user / month         51.52 €

Example for multiple users each on their own VDI desktop

ServicePrice / month

General Purpose ECS eg. m6.xlarge.8        171.05 €
Windows licence for m6.xlarge.8        104.00 €
oneclick Standard App x16 (pay per pool)          41.60 €
oneclick User Basic licence x16 (pay per pool)        128.00 €
Remote Desktop Services Licence x16        136.00 €
EVS (200gb) OS + 10gb per users             8.16 €
EIP             2.56 €
Outbound traffic (200gb per user per month)        224.96 €
Total        816.33 €
Total / user / month (for 20 users)         40.82 €

Example for a single user on a single desktop with demanding apps like CAD/BIM

ServicePrice / month

GPU VDI Optimised ECS eg. g1v.xlarge (including windows licence)        109.00 €
oneclick Standard App (pay per licence)             2.00 €
oneclick User Basic licence (pay per licence)             6.75 €
EVS (50gb)             2.15 €
EIP             2.56 €
Outbound traffic (400gb)          28.12 €
Total / user / month       150.58 €

This service can be included in your Flexible Engine Free Trial which you can request here.

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Services

oneclick AG Professional Services team can assist you with setting up VDI environments of all sizes on Flexible Engine. For more information please contact oneclick AG support team.

oneclick AG can also provide Managed VDI service on Flexible Engine for all your needs. For more information please contact oneclick AG sales services

Support

Support for the oneclick™ software is provided by oneclick AG themselves, oneclick AG should be the first point of contact. See oneclick website for contact details and instructions how to open a ticket. Specific hours of operation, availability target and response times for tickets are given in the oneclick SLA (Gold level).