Collaborative Environment with Application Virtualization (CEAV) for Upstream environment

Collaborative Environment with Application Virtualization (CEAV) is an advanced IT solution that provides a scalable environment, with optimum resource utilization for certain Upstream applications. CEAV provides high availability and business continuity for 2D and 3D Upstream applications. The solution capitalizes on clustering the virtualization infrastructure using multiple advanced technologies, such as Hyper-V, Graphical Processing Unit (GPUs), pass-through technique and users' sessions-sharing. Further, the proposed environment facilitates many of system administrators' tasks. CEAV is a multi-layer infrastructure that has a unique architecture including physical components, virtualized sets of machines, and cloud-enabled applications. The 3D Upstream applications demand a high resources utilization such as system memory, processing and high bandwidth to load data from the storage network. In this paper, we present the design and architecture of this environment, and demonstrate its usage by applying it to a section of an Upstream environment. The performance analysis results indicated the enhancement in major performed tasks in 3D CEAV environment, but for saving and writing there is a bit slowness in 3D CEAV environment compared to the legacy environment.