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25 November 2009
Yes, cloud. Not a typo. What do you get when you combine a low cost netbook and the upcoming Sun Desktop Access Client? You get a ton of computing power in a very small form factor that can go anywhere accessing powerful servers and Windows, Linux, and OpenSolaris VM's safely in your data center or cloud. How's that for VDI in the clouds?
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My name is Craig Bender. I'm a Senior Engineer for Sun Microsystems Virtual Desktop Engineering group.
I travel the world evangelizing the use of
Sun's Virtual Desktop technology including Sun Ray and Sun Secure Global
Desktop Software.
Besides the occasional Server Based Computing topic, on this blog you'll mostly find posts on Family, Fitness, and of course Cooking. Table for 7? Right this way.
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Nice, you read my mind :) I was planning on obtaining a couple netbooks (Eee or Aspire One) for my high school and using the SDAC to access our Sun Ray servers instead of buying the $1100+ laptops they currently use.
Relatedly, I've been creating a Sun Ray FOG in the cloud (Amazon EC2; http://blogs.sun.com/skr/entry/sun_ray_in_opensolaris_2009) that we're probably going to be testing with the desktop client (and a "register" page for anybody to get a temporary account). The link (sunray.mooo.com) is live, so feel free to test if you'd like
Posted by Stephen Repetski on August 17, 2009 at 06:35 PM PDT #
So I am curious. Two questions. How hard is it to get this all setup at home :); Second question, what netbook model is that? Ok one more :). Are you booting the netbook off wireless to the Sun Desktop Access Client?
Posted by Beau on August 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM PDT #
Hi Beau,
It's simple to setup. You however need the Early Access Version of Sun Ray Software 5 (I'd wait for EA2 which is in less than a month). Regarding the booting, the first release of the SDAC is windows only, so I just setup and alternate shell in windows xp that was on the netbook and the only thing the netbook launches is Sun Desktop Access Client.
Posted by ThinGuy on August 19, 2009 at 05:30 PM PDT #
Where DID you get that carpet ?
Posted by Colin on August 20, 2009 at 05:17 AM PDT #
Any plans or ETA for other versions of SDAC?
Posted by Curt Cox on August 23, 2009 at 06:49 AM PDT #
Thank for the reply ThinGuy! Will will give it a try when EA2 come out. So what kinda of netbook is that?
Posted by Beau on August 24, 2009 at 08:46 AM PDT #
Will SunRay v5 be available as a IPS package in OpenSolaris? I would love that, as the installation is non trivial.
Posted by Kebabbert on September 06, 2009 at 10:42 AM PDT #
To the best of my knowledge, no. What you find hard about the install? Or are you specifically talking about installing on OpenSolaris? We know we have issues there and are working on them. If installed on a supported OS, it doesn't get much simpler than utinstall. However, the install processes has been streamlined to make it much easier to use with things like Jumpstart in Sun Ray Software 5.
Posted by Thin Guy on September 06, 2009 at 05:57 PM PDT #