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From page four of Oracle's Oracle and Sun Overview and FAQ

"Yes, Oracle plans to continue Sun’s “desktop to datacenter virtualization” strategy and integrate with Oracle’s virtualization products. By unifying management across desktop virtualization, server virtualization, storage virtualization, and network virtualization, Oracle and Sun provide comprehensive, flexible, eco-efficient solutions to maximize utilization, consolidate to reduce costs, increase productivity, and decrease management complexity.

We expect to continue Sun’s desktop virtualization products: VDI, Secure Global Desktop, Sun Ray, and VirtualBox."

Ed note: Recommended Music to Read By

Additionally HERE you can find some instructions/scripts which can help to install, configure and connect your SGD server to Active Directory.

     Hot off the presses is Sun's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 2.0, just released last night. Included is the new Sun Virtual Desktop Connector, acting as a broker between Sun Ray and Secure Global Desktop infrastructure and VMware virtual machines.  This solution provides exceptional flexibility in deploying virtual desktops in an easy, secure manner to both Sun Ray clients as well as a variety of other clients, with a choice of desktop operating systems, including Windows, Solaris and Linux. This would probably be a good time to note our recent announcement of entering an OEM agreement with VMware, making it that much easier for a complete solution from Sun.

     Heck, so many interesting things happening in this space, it's hard to keep track of it all. Wouldn't want to miss our purchase of innotek and their VirtualBox technology, an open source virtualization software technology that allows running virtual machines under a variety of host operating systems to run many different guest OSes, including Solaris, Linux, Windows and OS X. Nor would I want to forget the ongoing work incorporating Xen open source technology into both OpenSolaris, and into xVM Server,  giving you the ability to run guest operating systems with no hypervisor knowledge as usual, and those guest operating systems that are hypervisor aware and can take advantage of performance enhancements through direct hypervisor calls.

Found some time this week, so here is the next part.

Dirk

From January 15th through the 18th, Sun will be holding a Software Event in Grenoble, France.  Days 1 and 2 will be focused on Sun Ray, Secure Global Desktop, and the Sun VDI solution.  I will be presenting along with Andy and Dirk.  We're even trying to get Matt to come to cover Sun Ray Server in conjunction with S10 Trusted Extensions.

Alexis' blog has the details on how to register for the FREE event. 

Hope to see you there.

(P.S. Anyone know of a good gym in Grenoble?)

New format and some new entries on our Success Stories pages.  Enjoy.

Sun Ray:  http://www.sun.com/sunray/success.xml

Secure Global Desktop:  http://www.sun.com/software/products/sgd/success.jsp

We are officially "Live" for the Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0 Open Beta and we would love to have you participate. Here is key information you'll need for downloading the beta software, whom to contact if you have any technical questions or issues, and a link for providing us any feedback on this product.

Sun's Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0 is the resulting product from Sun's existing Virtual Desktop Access Kit (VDAK) for VMWare and provides a mechanism for managing and accessing virtual Microsoft Windows desktops via Sun's desktop virtualization technologies such as Sun Ray Software and Sun Secure Global Desktop Software.

We would greatly welcome your feedback on this new beta software.

Please note that you will need to have specific software applications/versions installed prior to download and testing of the Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0 beta software. They are:
o SRS 4.0 (for Sun Ray testers)
o SGD 4.4 (for Sun Secure Global Desktop testers)
o ESX 3.0.1 or 3.0.2
o Virtual Center 2.0.1 or 2.0.2
o Windows XP

Thanks in advance for your participation and feedback!
 

Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0 Open Beta Program Instructions:
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Beta Download URL*: http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=473df2c6

*We encourage you to read the release notes as there are platform dependencies for this product. 

(Note:  Link to release notes and doc is currently broken. Temporarily the docs are available here. Release Notes, Admin Guide - BL)

For any technical questions or issues, please contact us at: sun-vdi-feedback AT sun.com. We will do our best to respond to your questions.

We'd love to have your feedback! Here is a link to a short survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=fgN4vpJe9WE8eRFJdxLDng_3d_3d

SGD Testers:
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The Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0 beta software requires an upgrade to SGD 4.4. The download URL for the beta upgrade is shown below. Should you have any specific SGD 4.4 install issues, please contact your Sun support representative for assistance.

SGD 4.4 Download URL: http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=4717e2a2

If you missed the excellent live webcast on September 26th featuring our Virtual Desktop solution for Government, Education, and Healthcare (GEH), you can watch a replay here.

The VMWare/Sun webcast from September 27th will be available shortly and I will post a link when I have it.