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Introducing Sun VDI Software 3

Today we announced Sun VDI Software 3. This is a HUGE update to the product and includes some amazing improvements:

• Significantly reduced storage consumption - Integration with Solaris ZFS and Open Storage eliminates wasted disk space for identical VM clones.
• Choice of virtualization hosts - Use VMware Infrastructure or the built-in Sun virtualization to host virtual desktops.
• Larger deployments with VMware - Supports multiple vCenter servers for large enterprise VDI deployments.
• Wide variety of virtual desktops operating systems - Provides virtual desktops of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, OpenSolaris, and Ubuntu.
• Instant VM cloning - Instead of waiting for multi-gigabyte file copies, virtual machine clones are created instantly and consume virtually no disk space by using ZFS snapshots.
• Multiple virtual desktops per user - A user can have multiple virtual desktops and can choose between them when logging in.
• Use nearly any client - Access a Sun VDI Software 3 session from nearly any modern Windows PC or thin client without installing any software.
  
• Integration with Active Directory - Assign virtual machines to users in Active Directory.
• Simplified installation - Integration of the core components into a unified installer to make administration and setup easier.
  

You can download it right now and you can read through the documentation.

There is also a new one stop shop for Sun desktop virtualization at our spiffy new URL:

sun.com/vdi

Here are a couple of videos that tell you about the product:

We're incredibly excited about this release and hope you are, too!

Posted at 07:25AM Mar 24, 2009 by Chris in Sun  |