Planning the Installation

Standard System Requirements

This section outlines the minimum requirements for a standard VDI 3 configuration. We recommend that you read the following pages for more information about supported software and VDI deployment options:

• Release Notes

• Supported Configurations

• Deployment Guide

  
  
  

  Sun VirtualBox Virtualization Platform

  A standard (minimum) VDI/VirtualBox setup for a production environment requires three VDI hosts, one VirtualBox host, and one storage host. The Sun VDI 3.0 Software is installed on the VDI hosts, and Sun VirtualBox for VDI is installed on the VirtualBox host. The storage host is used to store the virtual disks of the desktops which run on the VDI host.
  You can use any x86 host (even your laptop) to create a VirtualBox virtual machine which will be used by Sun VDI as a template for the desktops. Templates must be created in VirtualBox for VDI, which is available on the VDI download page.

  

  Requirements for two desktops with 512 MB memory and a 10 GB disk each:

  Host	CPU	Memory	Disk space
  Three VDI hosts	all x86 or all SPARC CPU	2 GB	1 GB
  VirtualBox host	x86 CPU	2 GB	1 GB
  Storage host	x86 CPU	1 GB	32 GB

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Supported Software

This section includes support tables for VDI Core host operating systems, virtualization platforms, storage servers, desktop guest systems. For more about VDI Support, see Supported Configurations.

VDI Core Host Operating Systems

Virtualization Platforms

Storage Servers

* With the 2009.Q3.0.0 release a new iSCSI stack (COMSTAR) has been introduced to the Unified Storage 7000 Series which is incompatible with VDI 3.0 and the upcoming VDI 3.1 releases. COMSTAR will be supported by VDI 3.1.1 which will be released ASAP after the 3.1 release.

Tip For more information about the Sun Unified Storage 7000 Series, see the Fishworks Documentation.

Desktop Guest Systems