Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software

This release is focused on adding support for Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. Additionally, many of the features of Sun Ray Software 5 are included. Please refer to the features page for additional information.

You can use any combination of the supported virtualization hosts with Sun VDI Software.

Yes, Windows Server 2008 is supported as a desktop provider. This means you can mix standard VDI desktops with client virtual desktop operating systems with traditional server-based computing all in the same deployment.

Sun VDI Software includes VirtualBox for VDI. This component is a hypervisor that runs on the server, but is well suited to hosting desktop operating systems. Customers can choose the built-in virtualization using VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, or VMware vSphere to host their virtual desktops (or a mixture).

VMware View is directly supported in Sun Ray Software. Please see the Sun Ray Software page for more information.

Yes, you can use the included Sun Desktop Access Client, or the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client.

No, support must be purchased separately. It is recommended that customers purchase either standard or premium support. Basic support is the lowest cost support offering, but only includes updates, patches and knowledge base access.

Customers of these other products must purchase Sun VDI Software at the standard price.

No, but you can provide a Linux virtual desktop (with Ubuntu or SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) by running the operating system on the Sun built-in virtualization.

Yes, when accessing from a Sun Ray client or the Sun Desktop Access Client.

No. Just as in prior versions, the version of Sun Secure Global Desktop Software licensed with Sun VDI Software is for a single desktop per user only.

No. Customers wishing to do application publishing with Sun Secure Global Desktop Software will need to purchase a full license for the product.

No. The included version has been modified to work out of the box with Sun VDI Software, so it is required. Using the public download of VirtualBox will cause problems for your installation of Sun VDI Software.

By integrating with Solaris ZFS and the Open Storage platform, Sun VDI Software is able to take advantage of ZFS snapshots to create instant clones of virtual machines that consume virtually no disk space. As users modify their virtual machines, storage space is used, but only the differences between their virtual machines and the original images consume disk space.

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems are based on Open Storage and offer breakthrough storage economics. These systems are tested with Sun VDI Software and are supported, including support for instant virtual machine cloning.

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems are an ideal storage platform for virtual desktop hosting using any of the supported virtualization technologies.