James, We have almost 3000 Sun Rays installed in 166 classrooms across four networks. For Windows we use both Windows 2003 Terminal Services and ESX Vmware running XP Pro Desktops. We use the Sun Ray Windows connector and Rdesktop to access the Windows clients with RDP. We use office products, and few very complex apps. The only way to know if all your apps wil work in terminal services is to test. For appliocations that don't like terminal services, we use VM's. You may also have an option with products like Win4Solaris, as they mature. They could possible replace terminal services and Vmware.
Igcognito DaveP -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JP Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 8:30 AM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] win4sol Hi, Anyone had any experience migrating an existing windows 2000/2003 server + network PC environment complete with existing school applications to a sunray thin client architecture? The client has about 30 applications (spelling, drawing, math etc) from a variety of vendors. Do I have to tell them that in order to migrate and benefit from using thin clients they will have to make each application rdp compliant ? Or are there workaround's for this ? James fitra budi anggoro wrote: Hi David, It would be great feature. We are facing TCO problem when having Windows environment. We always had at least one extra machine to host SRSS compare to other thin client. Btw, where I can get this information? any beta version I can download from? Looking forward to it. Thanks, Fitra "Partington, David R Mr (NGIT) USAIC&FH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I contacted virtual Bridges for information on their win4sol product. They were very quick to get back to me. I was provided a download copy of Win4sol Pro. I installed it on a Ultra20m2 running Solaris 10 11/06. They provide two package installs, one is a standard X86 32bit, and amd64. I installed the amd64 package since I am running a Ultra20. The instructions provided are excellent. I was able to build the XP Pro image (20GB), and install the image to a user in less than an hour. I set up the /winsol/local.setings file to run XP in "maximized" mode, the performance is excellent. I went to Youtube and ran a couple of video clips, there was barely any lag with video. Audio was good but had a few noise spikes noted. Using the Xserver instead of RDP for Windows makes a big difference. I ran mpstat and saw very little cpu usage. I was able to lock up win4sol once, but I am not sure what I did. For the most part win4sol is solid for a pre-release. My next test is to load the Sun Ray server software on my Ultra20 and test performance. I will post my results. Win4sol is not in release yet, infact they are still working on pricing. The target audience is Vmware and Terminal server users. I really like the concept, because it would be interesting to see a 4600m2 running Solaris, SRSS, and win4sol all on one box. This would really reduce the TCO. Sorry for the Rambling Incognito Dave _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ________________________________ Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc =X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM-> ________________________________ _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
