We are not using CoolThreads servers. We also have no experience here with Trusted Extensions, and it sounds like maintaining a user -> group relationship would mean yet another management point that we are trying to minimize by moving from a PC workstation environment to the Sun Ray. We also are dealing with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements that may (or may not) negate this configuration. (As I mentioned, I have no experience with Trusted Extensions, so I'm not sure of how physically isolated the configuration is.)
We have a pretty decent understanding of containers and resource management, as well as an installed base of traditional SPARC servers available for use. Several of these servers are already running zones. I can't justify installing new servers when our existing hardware is perfectly adequate for serving up desktops to users. SRSS in containers is going to stay high on my wish list. It's probably going to be difficult (if not impossible) to pull off on your side, but from the admin's end, it's a simple and elegant deployment solution. Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Your work on this list is deeply appreciated. -Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Wong Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:20 PM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] SRSS in zones Or you can run SRSS on LDOM, if CoolThreads servers are used. We are a setup in test environment. http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/ldoms/index.xml Bob Doolittle wrote: > Michael Bender/MBP wrote: >> Quayle, Bill wrote: >>> I saw Michael mention the "must do in the next release", which brought >>> to mind the SRSS in a zone topic from a while back. >>> >>> I'm at the tip of the iceberg in rolling out Sun Rays as the standard >>> desktop. We have a dozen deployed, and about 3000 to go. It would >>> be a >>> whole lot easier to convince management that the Rays are the way to go >>> if I could tell them the server runs in a zone. It would also be much >>> easier to keep them on Solaris if they ran in a zone. >>> >>> Due to business requirements, we need to provide a FOG that spans three >>> data centers, with each FOG serving one business unit. If I have to do >>> individual machines for each business unit, that multiplies way too >>> fast >>> to be practical. >>> >>> Please make SRSS in a zone a priority. >> >> Can you get by with using server virtualization (via something like >> VMware for example) (if you're running x86 boxes that is)? > > I would say that currently running SRSS in a VMware VM is not > recommended - nobody has reported acceptable performance for > SRSS within a VM, and many have reported performance issues. > > -Bob > >> >> How about if you enabled Trusted Extensions on your Sun Ray servers >> and then assigned each user to a particular label so that from the >> user's perspective, they appear to be on their own business units' >> server? >> >> mike >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
