Bare Metal (PC Farm)
While DaDesktop primarily relies on virtual desktops, specific tasks demand a physical hardware environment. Through the bare metal solution, every participant is allocated their own dedicated physical desktop or server, all seamlessly managed within the DaDesktop ecosystem.
Dedicated hardware per participant
Instead of sharing a virtual instance, each user operates on their own dedicated physical machine.
Remote physical classroom management
Integrate existing classrooms into DaDesktop to oversee and control the hardware without requiring on-site presence.
Scenarios requiring bare metal
- Applications incompatible with virtualization, such as ONAP and OpenStack.
- Specialized hardware that cannot be emulated in a virtual environment, including specific GPUs, Mellanox cards, and other network devices.
- Training modules where interacting with firmware or physical components is essential to the curriculum.
- Physical classroom environments that require centralized remote administration.
Operational mechanics
Every physical machine interfaces with a DaDesktop node via a control cable known as ddnexus. When provisioning a standalone or fresh-start desktop, choose the "Metal PC" option to deploy the environment directly onto the physical hardware.
PC Farm
Existing office desktops can be integrated to function as bare metal nodes. In this architecture, each physical desktop is designated as a potato. The central server responsible for management is referred to as a pumpkin (also known as a DaDesktop node or ddnode). The USB cable linking each potato to the pumpkin is termed a potato stalk.
Potato stalk cables can be sourced from marketplaces like eBay and Alibaba.
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