I also have 2 Windows Server 2019 Datacenter licenses and a bunch of Windows 10 Pro licenses. In addition, it supports OpenSolaris for x86.I currently have two servers with one populated CPU (8 cores) socket each running in a cluster with their storage on a SAN connected via iSCSI. Sun VDI 3.0 will support a wider range of desktop operating systems, including those named above, than some virtual desktop infrastructure product sets.

But for users of Windows 2000 and Ubuntu Linux, RDP must be added to the virtual guest, and can be through Sun's hypervisor services, he said. When the guest operating system is Windows XP or Vista, RDP is available through them.

Sun has built the RDP protocol into its VirtualBox hypervisor so that desktop virtual machines may be generated on a central server and desktop presentations sent to users without requiring RDP being added to the client itself, Kawalek said. 'Many will use VMware for the majority of their desktops and Sun for a subset of users,' he said. With this release of VDI 3, Sun is adding the option of a Sun-only virtual desktop software set, said Chris Kawalek, product line manager. RDP by itself is too slow to deliver smooth full motion video or data intense multimedia. (Nasdaq: MSFT)'s Remote Desktop Protocol. In the past, Sun has partnered with VMware in virtualization on the desktop and it still is Sun is the supplier of a protocol that speeds up VMware's own delivery of virtual desktops over RDP, (Nasdaq: JAVA) has struck out on its own in issuing an upgraded offering for virtualizing desktops with its recent release of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3.

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