You can use Aurora Protect Desktop to protect both physical and virtual machines. This section details the best practices for deploying the Aurora Protect Desktop agent on Windows based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) workstations.

Aurora Protect Desktop works well as a guest OS component because it is not IOPS or memory intensive on a per-guest basis. The preparation and deployment of the Aurora Protect Desktop agent in a virtual environment is similar to deployment on a physical computer. The deployment steps and best practices in this section will ensure that the agent performs efficiently in a virtual environment with fewer allocated resources and will help you to produce a gold image with no unsafe or abnormal files. After the gold image is thoroughly vetted, you can clone production VDI images from it.