Product Description Remote Desktop Rentals (DaaS)

Last update: February 13 2026

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a service that allows you to work with a remote computer via a virtual desktop (VDI based on Omnissa Horizon®) in Selectel's VMware-based cloud.

You can purchase any number of desks.

Tasks to be solved

• Quickly connect users to the company's secure servers from their device or to their workstations when working remotely;
• work with graphic applications that require large computing power and cannot run on users' devices (3D modeling, CAD, high quality graphics, video work, etc.);
• increased security of data storage. Since data is not stored on the device, if the device is lost, it can be disconnected from the remote desktop.

Principle of operation

Selectel hosts the infrastructure, networking, and storage in a VMware-based cloud and delivers the virtual desktop to the user's device. You access the desktop data and applications through a browser in Omnissa Horizon HTML Access or through the Omnissa Horizon Client.

Load balancing of virtual machines is automatic.

Configurations

DaaS is provided in fixed configurations with or without GPUs. Remote desktops are provided based on multiple operating systems.

	Configuration 1	Configuration 2	Configuration 3	Configuration 4	Configuration 5	Configuration 6
Number of vCPUs	2	4	8	4	4	8
RAM	4 GB.	8 GB.	16 GB	16 GB	32 GB	32 GB
SSD	200 GB.	200 GB.	200 GB.	200 GB.	200 GB.	200 GB.
GPU	✗	✗	✗	2 GB.	2 GB.	4 GB.

Technical Description

DaaS uses:

• NVIDIA® A16 GPU based on NVIDIA Ampere® architecture;
• AMD EPYC™ 7343 processor with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz;
• disk subsystem: vSSD (5,000 IOPS);
• NVIDIA® license (included).

If you want to customize your desktops, consider renting desktops in a VMware-based private cloud (from 50 desktops).

Provided OS

• Windows Server 2022 (English);
• Windows 10 LTSC (Russian);
• Windows 11 23H2 (Russian);
• Ubuntu 22.04.

System Requirements

User device requirements

• To access via Omnissa Horizon HTML Access, the user's browser must meet system requirements, see the System Requirements for HTML Access instructions in the Omnissa documentation for details;

• To access via Omnissa Horizon Client, the user's device and OS must meet the system requirements, please refer to the Omnissa documentation instructions for details:

  • Hardware and Software Requirements for Windows Client Systems;
  • System Requirements for Linux Client Systems;
  • System Requirements for Mac Clients.

NVIDIA driver requirements in VDI

For the vGPU to work correctly in VDI, the driver version on the virtual machine must match the version installed on the virtualization host. Virtualization hosts use driver releases from the LTSB branch (Long-Term Support Branch).

To see the driver versions, please refer to NVIDIA's documentation.

Omnissa Horizon Client version requirements

If you are using Omnissa Horizon Client, its version must be the same as or later than the version of Omnissa Horizon Connection Server and Omnissa Horizon Agent.

We recommend using the latest version of Omnissa Horizon Client, it can be downloaded from the Omnissa Customer Connect website, App Store and Google Play.

Areas of responsibility

Selectel provides:

• maintenance and fault tolerance of the desktop;
• service infrastructure backup, data update and storage;
• balancer setup;
• monitoring;
• connectivity between Selectel services (Selectel global router);
• restoration of serviceability in case of failure.

Selectel is not responsible for the operation of the software running on the remote device or for the stability of the user's Internet connection.