Citrix Systems, Inc.
MIGRATION OF A DESKTOP WORKLOAD

Abstract:

A computer system includes a client device, geographically distributed data centers and a server. The client device remotely accesses a virtual desktop, with the virtual desktop configured to run and store a workload for an end-user of the client device. One of the data centers is assigned to host a virtual desktop for the client device based on a current location of the end-user. The server determines an indication of a future change in location of the end-user from the current location to a target location that is different from the current location. The server further determines which data center is to be reassigned to host the virtual desktop in response to the determined indication, and cooperates with the data centers to migrate the workload to the reassigned data center in response to travel of the end-user to the target location.