Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2 Launched

Oracle announced the release of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2. Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a complete management, hosting and access solution for virtualised desktops hosted in the datacentre. By enabling standardised virtual desktop images, Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure helps reduce administration overhead, lower total cost of ownership and increase security.

“This release of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is further evidence of Oracle’s commitment to providing a complete portfolio of virtualisation solutions that helps reduce costs and leverages existing IT resources,” said Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Linux and Virtualisation Engineering, Oracle. “The latest improvements in scalability, multimedia, and administration can help remove the barrier to entry for organisations considering virtual desktop architectures, and allow them to increase IT efficiency and flexibility.”

New features in Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2 include global hot-desking, multi-company capabilities, enhanced video and audio capabilities and administrative enhancements.

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2 is part of Oracle Virtualisation, the virtualisation portfolio – from desktop-to-datacentre. Complete Management, Hosting and Access for Virtual Desktops

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Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2 provides:

• Scalability enhancements:

  Global hot-desking, allows administrators to link multiple, global datacentres and helps ensure a high quality user experience, regardless of location;

  The ability to redirect requests to alternate sites if a datacentre is unavailable, providing enhanced disaster recovery;

  Multi-company capability, enabling one deployment to share resources and serve multiple domains and directories, helping service providers and large enterprises with complex directory services architectures.

• Multimedia improvements:

  Enhanced video support provides smoother video playback on all supported virtual desktop operating systems;

  Audio-in support allows users to send audio to their Windows XP virtual desktops.

• Administration enhancements and optimisations:

  Built-in Windows virtual desktop provisioning offers a faster and simpler alternative to third party tools;

  Desktop re-provisioning allows the underlying Windows virtual desktop images to be updated while preserving user settings and data, making operating system updates easier and conserving disk space;

  Memory sharing and memory ballooning for Windows virtual desktops increases virtual machine density, and enables better utilisation of server resources with dynamic virtual machine memory management. This helps provide an optimum balance between high consolidation ratios and high performance;

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  Enhanced backup, notification, and storage with integrated backup and restore of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure server settings, new system alarms and search options, and enhancements to storage utilisation.