The newly revamped sun ray 3 and 3i thin client systems announced by oracle carry on the sun strategy of making easytodeploy hardware that supports a. On 1st of august oracle announced the eol for oracle vdi, sun ray hardware and software. Tiberian sun, ideer blu ray player, and many more programs. This architecture places all the applications and data on the servers, where the data is more secure than on a traditional laptop or desktop computer. Alp is an optimized, mature protocol for delivering the display to the sun ray device and transferring input from devices to the srss. Due to a security vulnerability in the sun ray server software, an unprivileged local user may be able to intercept the sun ray administrators utadmin password when the administrator logs in to the sun ray administration tool. The company had made a number of improvements to suns vdi software and sun ray client products since then, including an ipad app for virtual desktop clients in 2011. Yn n about to configure the following software products. How can i install windows directly on the sun server. How to setup sun ray servers and client devices with vmware. Maybe this is related somehow to gdm package but it did not work. Installing sunray software server srss on centos 5. There was also firmware for the thin clients themselves, called something like sun ray operating system.
Most of the sun ray software commands are located in the optsunwutsbin directory. If you download the software electronically, then when instructions and procedures in this guide ask you to change to the image directory on the cdrom. Security vulnerability in the sun ray server software. Announcing end of life for oracle vdi, sun ray hardware and software. Only sustaining level support is currently available for sun ray software and. Points 1,3,4 and 8 below are obsolete, they are now included. The sun ray client im using is a sun ray 2, which is a very low power device about 4w, equipped with the following ports.
The remote hosts strauss and copland have a special role since your home directory is. Security vulnerability in sun ray server software may. I spent many weeks trying to install sunray server software on linux. About to configure the following software products. Setup a linux server for sunray1g thinclient solutions. Nov 02, 1999 the sun ray itself doesnt contain user software, only device drivers for the hardware, a tcpip network protocol stack, an authentication module, and the sun ray display protocol. To determine the version of sun ray server software in use, the following command can be run. Jul 16, 20 the company had made a number of improvements to sun s vdi software and sun ray client products since then, including an ipad app for virtual desktop clients in 2011. Jun 25, 2009 i spent many weeks trying to install sunray server software on linux.
Sun ray server software patches are not tested in a. I add my notes about installing sun ray server software on debian now to the sunray wiki. It is recommended to setup the solution without ssl first. What is the abbreviation for sun ray server software. You can run x11vnc on your connected or disconnected sunray session please remember to use settings like wait 200, sb 15, and not running a screensaver animation blank instead to avoid being a resource hog. It featured a smart card reader and several models featured an integrated flat panel display the idea of a stateless desktop was a significant shift from, and the eventual successor to, sun s earlier line. Add this directory to your path variable, so you dont need to provide the full path when using the commands. Virtual desktop products included sun ray server software, sun secure global desktop and sun virtual desktop infrastructure.
The sun ray from oracle is a stateless thin client solution aimed at corporate environments. Sun ray server software authentication manager flaw lets. If you are considering sun ray servers, client devices or thinking about suns alp protocol. Sun ray server software and sun dsee oracle community. This sun alert notification is being provided to you on an as is basis. The most important advantages of intranet deployment are. Sun ray server software how is sun ray server software. How to setup sun ray servers and client devices with. Monitor packets sent and dropped between the sun ray server and the sun ray clients. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them. Sun for short was an american company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the java programming language, the solaris operating system, zfs, the network file system nfs, and sparc. Is any sun ray server software available for windows.
The server is fully functional, without any limitation. The sunray cloud hosting platform houses your software in a secure environment allowing you access anytime from any internetenabled computer. It provides access to virtual desktop environments from nearly any location and dramatically reduces the complexity and operational costs incurred by traditional pc deployments. Monitor packets sent and dropped between the sun ray server and the sun ray.
Oracle sun ray client and windows 2012 server youtube. Sun ray software srs is available for the solaris and linux operating systems. The sun ray server software includes a dhcp service, which delivers the necessary information to all of the sun ray thin clients on the same subnet. Recent versions of the sun ray server software srss seems to be version 3. The communication between the sun ray device and srss uses suns proprietary appliance link protocol alp.
Using a remote desktop connect rdp, simply connect to the sunray log in page with a highspeed connection. Enable the configuration of different types of smart cards in the sun ray data store. Virtual desktop infrastructure with sun ray 2 devices. Sun developed a separate network display protocol, appliance link. Part of the configuration that is done at install time sets up a small ldap server, but instead of pointing at localhost, it points at the machine name. Sun ray can be deployed on any existing network infrastructure that meets sun ray quality of service qos requirements. The sun ray client is a display device which can be connected to a remote os instance in basically two ways. Sun ray server patches will be tested first in a development environment and any issues.
The list of acronyms and abbreviations related to pcsd sun ray server software. Sun developed a separate network display protocol, appliance link protocol alp, for the sun ray system. How to setup vmware view and sun ray server software 4. Sun ray 3i thin client hardware provides fat vdi for. Check these blogs out for details on how to build a vmware view poc with sun ray servers. To avoid installation script errors that can occur if user environment settings are carried forward, use the following command. The sun ray solution enables users to perform tasks remotely on a server. The sun ray from oracle is a stateless thin client solution aimed at corporate environments, originally introduced by sun microsystems in september 1999 and discontinued by oracle in 2014. Sun ray devices communicate to sun ray server software srss, which is currently at version 4. Since the sun download center was decommissioned earlier on july 31, 2011, i ve lost track at oracles website.
This procedure uses the utsetup command to install and configure a sun ray server for both the linux or solaris operating system the utsetup command configures a sun ray server to use a shared network lan and it generates a set of. Newer versions of the sun ray server software allow for a much more distributed setting of sun ray clients and servers. For more information on security sun alerts, see 1009886. A variety of networks were supported, from lan to wan or the public internet. Sun ray clients are connected via an ethernet network to a sun ray server. Afaik currently each thin client includes a license cost but it would be better to ask sun sales. Select filter products by product, under product, enter sun ray software, and. The sun ray itself doesnt contain user software, only device drivers for the hardware, a tcpip network protocol stack, an authentication module, and the sun ray display protocol.
For further information, see the man page for the command in question. Jun 03, 2010 the sun ray client is a display device which can be connected to a remote os instance in basically two ways. Trouble is, that today i just bought a very neat sun ray 2fs and for setting this up i really do need to find the sun ray server software 4. Organizations need to stay current with all applicable sun ray server software updates that are released from sun microsystems. If no server in the auth server list responds, should an auth server be located by broadcasting. The update will include 16 security fixes for sun products, including solaris, sun cluster, sun convergence and the sun ray server software. This page shows you how to download the sun ray software media pack. Best bet is to download the eval copy of the sunray server and have a play with it. Announcing end of life for oracle vdi, sun ray hardware. Two security vulnerabilities in sun ray server software 4. Configure the sun ray data store server to enable replication of administered data from a designated primary server to each secondary server in a failover group. The data stores of the secondary servers remain synchronized automatically unless there is a power outage.
Oracle ceases development of vdi, sun ray clients and software. Perform the initial configuration of the sun ray server and supporting administration framework software. After an experience i had yesterday, i need to say a little more than i did at nevada to opensolaris sun ray on sparc part 5 sun ray server 4. Sun ray server software and sun dsee 858763 jun 7, 2011 11. Srss abbreviation stands for sun ray server software.
There is sun ray server software srss, last at version 5. Sun ray software is a secure and costeffective solution that delivers a rich virtual desktop experience for sun ray clients, pcs, and laptops. This page shows you how to download the sun ray software media pack, oracle virtual desktop client, and sun ray connector for citrix xendesktop from the oracle software delivery cloud. This dhcp service is capable of supplying dynamically allocated ip addresses from a pool specified in the sun ray server software configuration, as well as supplying sun ray specific information. Oracle only started restricting those firmware images around srss v5. Can i use any other servers like hp ibm instead of sun fire x 4200 to connect with sun ray thinclients. Downloads for sun ray software, sun ray operating software, oracle virtual desktop infrastructure. Download sun ray software from the oracle software delivery cloud or my oracle support. To download and install the oracle enterprise manager for sun ray software plugin, login to enterprise manager 12c, and go to setup extensibility self update. Sun s solaris now getting quarterly security patches index. Oracle technology network server and storage systems sun ray products.
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