Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a complete management, hosting and access solution for virtualized desktops hosted in the data center. Oracle VDI 3.2 is the latest version just released in August. New features include global hot-desking, multi-company capabilities, enhanced video and audio capabilities and administrative enhancements.

This is the first major release of the former Sun VDI that is branded with the Oracle look and feel. Matthias Müller-Prove summarized this release's highlights as:

• Global Desktop Search: search for desktops by state or name in all companies and pools
• Fast Preparation for Windows desktops (for Hyper-V and VirtualBox): especially faster than Windows sysprep during desktop cloning
• Memory Sharing and Memory Paging for VirtualBox hypervisor: better utilize the available memory on the built-in hypervisor by cooperative use of memory among the desktops, or by using the same memory pages just once
• Personal Hard Drives: creates a volume D:/ for personal assigned desktops. This allows to update the system on volume C:/ whenever a new template revision is promoted to master.
• Unified Desktop Provider Management: provides an overview on all desktop providers for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Remote Desktop (Terminal Servers), and the build-in VirtualBox hypervisor.
• Generic Desktop Provider: for accessing PCs via RDP.
• Peak-times for cloning and recycling: move resource consuming tasks to off-working hours
• Storage Enhancements: active/active OpenStorage clustering, dedicated iSCSI Networking, OpenStorage write cache support (including Logzillas), and other improvements
• Multi-Company: ability to work with several distinct user directories. Either for large corporations or distributed departments of universities, or for separate clients of the VDI service; think: Desktop as a Service
• Global VDI Centers: several VDI Centers can be connected with each other on a global scale to allow traveling employees to access their home desktop or a guest desktop abroad.
• Alarms for Desktop Provider and DB Cluster Status for VDI Center: web-based notification to inform the administrator that something is not working as expected
• Backup and Restore: Export and import the entire database of VDI
• Orphan Desktops and Orphan Disks: Search for desktops without a disk, or for disks on the storage without a desktop in VDI. This can be used for housekeeping tasks.

“The latest improvements in scalability, multimedia, and administration can help remove the barrier to entry for organizations considering virtual desktop architectures, and allow them to increase IT efficiency and flexibility,” commented Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle.

Oracle VDI offers a choice of virtual desktop operating systems including Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop; a built-in virtualization host optimized for virtual machines running desktop operating systems, which can also integrate with VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V; and support for Oracle Sun Ray Clients and most modern PCs and Macs.

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