15.1. Peripherals Overview

Note

This chapter does not provide information about the USB redirection feature that is provided with the Windows connector, which is the recommended way to access USB devices connected to Sun Ray Clients. See Section 18.6, “USB Device Redirection” for details.

Using mass storage devices without the USB redirection Windows component provides much lower performance on Oracle Linux than Oracle Solaris due to the design of the Linux mass storage subsystem. Use USB redirection for optimum performance with mass storage devices.

When you connect a peripheral to a Sun Ray Client, a device node is created that you can use to access the device. Sun Ray Software works with various mass storage devices such as flash disks, memory card readers, zip drives, and hard drives on Sun Ray Clients. Data CDs and DVDs can be read but not written. Other end-user peripherals such as USB headsets can also be used.

For the latest list of peripherals tested to work with Sun Ray Software, see the Sun Ray Peripherals List.