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The what, why, and how of Sun VDI Software #3

#3 - How does the Sun Virtual Desktop Connector fit in with Sun VDI Software?

The Sun Virtual Desktop Connector is software that allows Sun VDI Software, Sun Ray Software, and Sun Secure Global Desktop Software to manipulate and connect users to virtual machines. The first version of the Sun Virtual Desktop Connector is debuting with support for VMware Infrastructure 3. This means that if you have ESX of VirtualCenter installed, you can leverage the Virtual Desktop Connector to create and manage pools of VMs, deal with VM life cycles and other very cool things.

Many of these capabilities were available prior to release of the Virtual Desktop Connector, but the product makes setup and management much easier. For example, you could manually map each user that logged in via SGD or SRS to a specific VM by IP address, but it was a completely manual process. With the Virtual Desktop Connector, you can completely automate the assignment of VMs to users. Here are some features from the beta documentation:

1. Connecting users with their virtual desktops from Sun Ray virtual display clients
2. Connecting users with their virtual desktops from PCs or Java-enabled browsers
3. Managing hundreds of virtual desktops through a simple interface
4. Permanently assigning users to virtual desktops
5. Temporarily assigning virtual desktops to users out of pools of identical instances
6. Offering policies to control the creation, lifetime, and end-of-life of a virtual desktop as part of a pool
7. Support of VMware Virtual Center 2.0x as a virtualization platform, including all resource and high-availability features
8. Support of VMware ESX 3.0.x as bare-metal platform for small and medium size deployments

If you have some familiarity with SGD or SRS and would like to try it out, please go grab the software and read through the docs.

Posted at 11:19AM Nov 28, 2007 by Chris in Sun  |