Glossary

Allocation

An allocation allows a particular user access to a pool or specific workstation. See this page for more.

Egress

Network traffic leaving a network or resource. In public cloud environments, egress is often charged based on usage, such as $ per GB.

Image library family

In the context of the Image library, a family is a collection of variants and images that all share a common characteristic. This is usually a key piece of software, or a collection of tools designed for a particular workflow.

For example, there may be a family for the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of tools.

Image library variant

In the context of the Image library, a variant is a group of image library images that belong to an image library family.

Variants share common characteristics with other variants in the family, but may have key differences. For example, suppose there is a family for the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. In that case, there may be one variant for graphics-accelerated workstations, and another variant for workstations that are not graphics-accelerated.

Image library version

In the context of the Image library, a version is a specific image that belongs to a variant.

The image contains details such as the applications installed, a readme file, and the build version.

Image library image

See ' Image library version'

Infrastructure Availability Manager (IAM)

A Lens component that is responsible for ensuring infrastructure starts and stops at the correct times.

Ingress

Network traffic entering a network or resource.

Locations

See ‘ Site’.

Reservation

See ‘ Allocation’.

Pools

A group of workstations that Lens offers to users.

Its recommended that all workstations in the pool should be identical or of a similar type so that they are interchangeable.

Site

Lens supports multiple locations (also known as sites), allowing users to access and manage workstations and infrastructure in multi-cloud, hybrid and on-premise environments.

Each site has its own roles, pools, templates, schedules and more.

Workstation Availability Manager (WAM)

A Lens component that is responsible for ensuring workstations start and stop at the correct times.