Not in the sense of actually installing and using. I have seen a NC State's VCL (Virtual Computing Lab) demoed. And in a previous life I used Citrix.
But I have been extremely impressed with the ease of installation and use of Sun's VDI. I installed Sun's SGD (Secure Global Desktop) on the same server and it was remarkably fast! It is really the Tarantella product that Sun bought. I liken it to Citrix on roids. It also went in easily. In the spirit of full disclosure, I did not set up any application servers, say a Windows server to serve out apps to SGD. I used everything Sun for my trials and it was all on one server. But I had the whole thing up an running in about an hour. It took another hour to setup groups, etc. I use Sun Rays to connect. And I used Ubuntu, Windows and OpenSolaris, all running FireFox, to test SGD. All worked great. I use xVM (Xen) to run VMs for our Computer Science Department. I have had a lot of success with that. I have been able to serve out 12 fully virtualized Debian instances on a 4600 with no problems. I did load XenCenter from Citrix and try it and it is a great product. I used the free version and like it better than ESXi. Hope that helps. /paul -----Original Message----- >From: "Jonathan C. Bailey" <[email protected]> >Sent: Aug 20, 2009 2:14 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] VDI3 vs VMWare View vs XenDesktop > >Have you evaluated any other VDI solutions besides Sun's VDI? > >Jonathan Bailey >Marshall County, Iowa >1 E Main St, Marshalltown, IA 50158 > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Paul Whitener" <[email protected]> >To: "SunRay-Users mailing list" <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:12:57 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central >Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] VDI3 vs VMWare View vs XenDesktop > >I have begun testing VDI in a university environment using VirtualBox as the >VM provider. So far it works great! But I have a very small user base at >this time and I am running the VDI instance in "demo" mode for the trial. > >-----Original Message----- >>From: "Jonathan C. Bailey" <[email protected]> >>Sent: Aug 20, 2009 1:45 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [SunRay-Users] VDI3 vs VMWare View vs XenDesktop >> >>We're looking at deploying VDI3 on our network with a mix of Sun Ray 2 and >>2FS thin clients. So far, we love it. To cover all of our bases, I'd like to >>find if anyone has done any real world testing of the various VDI platforms. >>I'd love to hear both upsides and downsides of each. >> >>Hopefully this isn't too off topic for the list. >> >>Jonathan Bailey >>Marshall County, Iowa >>1 E Main St, Marshalltown, IA 50158 >>_______________________________________________ >>SunRay-Users mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > > > >_______________________________________________ >SunRay-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users >_______________________________________________ >SunRay-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
