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About Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Saturday, February 7. 2009

Frequent readers of my blog may remember, that i´m really a little bit hesitant to believe that there is really a technical reason for server virtualisation - at least in the Unix space. As Alec Muffet once coined: Virtualisation is a security feature, not a consolidation feature. But there is one area where the need for virtualisation is more obvious: Desktop Virtualisation. This area provides the right combination: An operating system (Win XP predominantly) not really able to consolidate workloads and the ratio between needed compute power (Office, Web) and provided compute power per Desktop (Quadcore 3,0 Ghz) is just absurd. Thus virtualisation in conjunction with a really thin client (and not these stripped down Linux Desktops) is one of the few really valid business cases for virtualisation in my opinion.

Well, Sun has an interesting solution for desktop virtualisation with SunRays and the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. This VDI is short before it´s third major release and it contains many interesting feature like the emancipation of the solution from VMware by the support of Virtualbox on a server or the direct support for iSCSI for the deployment of desktops. It´s a really interesting solution with many facets. To describe them i just want to link to the blog of an expert. In the blog of Dirk Grobler you will find many informations about VDI3.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 10:29 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yes, virtualization is really just a security (and resource controls!) feature. But it's a damned useful one!

Of course, one then needs to consider HTTP 1.0 and TLS 1.0, which do no properly support virtualization (though recent versions, of course, do).

In the end virtualization features like Solaris Zones, Virtual Box, XvM (and competitors, and UltraSPARC domains) are darned useful for consolidation, even if they can be thought of as "just" security features.

#1 Nico (Homepage) on 2009-02-10 22:36 (Reply)

I fully agree, Desktop virtualization is a great thing. We work with Sun Ray's all day. But somebody should tell Sales, that Sun Rays exist.

Cause sometimes i have the impression nobody is believing in this great Product, isn't it great?

You could do all your Work save a lot of Energy compared to a normal PC Workstation.

Thin Clients are a great concept but nobody is pushing this concept.

#2 Bernd H on 2009-02-12 22:21 (Reply)

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