Fair enough, Francios! The customer is a financial company. They are looking to save on power/cooling and improve agility and manageability of their environment.
They have workstations that run a very critical proprietary app that is very resource-intensive. So these desktops cannot be virtualized. Current setup: Each user has 2 workstations on their desks. One runs general Windows stuff (Office, IE, etc). The second one runs this critical app. They have 6 monitors. Quads for the app and Dual for general desktop. Initially proposed solution: Move app workstations into the datacenter. Virtualize general desktops on VMware. Replace workstations at the users' desks with SunRay 2FS clients. Connect all that using VMware View 4. Because the app is so critical and intensive, customer wants to utilize PCoIP protocol to present app to users and avoid performance and latency problems of using RDP. Sun solution looked good because ALP is similar to PCoIP. And so they thought they could use PCoIP protocol to View and then ALP from SRS to thin clients. With RDP only being used within datacenter. Problem: For these dedicated app workstations, they have to install Teradici cards that provide PCoIP connectivity. However, Teradici has not released a driver yet that would allow these cards to talk to View Agent. And as such, these workstations cannot be delivered to thin clients using View. Proposed solution (if it si even possible): Install Teradici card on SunRay Server. Have workstation cards talk to SRS card. The SRS would pass the output to thin clients. This would eliminate View completely. We can then use VDA connector on SRS to present general use desktops that will be virtualized. Questions: 1. Would SunRay Server be able to do that? And how? 2. Is it possible? Can 1 Teradici card talk to multiple Teradici cards? 3. How do I present a choice of desktops to the user? They need to be able to start regular desktops on 1 thin client and App desktop on the other pair of thin clients on their desks. I was going to use Meta Kiosk. Would that work? How would I do that? 4. Customer also has some Linux desktops (CentOS, I think). What is the best way to present them to thin clients? (SGD vs VNC on the SRS server vs building SRS on CentOs (is that possible? if so, are there any instructions out there?) Hope this explains it better. Thank you SO much for willing to help!! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vitaly Tsipris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Francois Dion Sent: Sun 12/20/2009 7:30 AM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Teradici and SunRay problem On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Vitaly Tsipris <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I am working with a customer who has an interesting challenge. I hope you > could help me figure out a way to help them. [...] > Finally, does anyone have any other alternative ideas on how to solve this > customer's problem? You never stated the customer problem. From what you mentionned, there is nothing there that requires teradici cards and except for the mention of 6 monitors at each desks, we only have a vague idea of the whole thing. Let's start from the beginning, what is the customer requirement? _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
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