Jumping VDI

Hi,

I'm sure this will be of interest for various people. We have just released a first patch for VDI 3. It includes a number of important enhancements, such as:

• S10 U7 support
  This is quite significant as it allows you to build a demo/POC on a single box including VirtualBox and Storage. Some postings on how this can be done will follow.
• VMware vSphere 4 support:
  VDI 3 runs against vCenter 4
• Support of the latest Unified Storage firmware
• Performance improvements in the UI
• And many other things targeted for scalability and robustness

The x86 version is 141482-01.

The Sparc version is 141481-01.

Just one note: The documentation will reflect the changes sometime next week. So stay tuned for the update.

- Dirk

Sun has just announced a new storage system, the 7310. The big thing about it is: It provides basically the same functionality as the 7410 including High Availability through clustering, but at a lower entry price. This system is ideal to start small and grow later for dedicated VDI deployments.

It starts with 6 TB and can grow to 96TB in up to four storage extensions. It is perfectly made for hosting VM images through NFS or iSCSI with a big read/write caches in the middle. But of course it can also be used as a file server in a Windows environment. As said, ideal for VDI.

-Dirk