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advice on virtualizing student server

Mike_MT — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:48:03 GMT

Hey All,

I want to virtualize my student file server, but need some advice. Currently, the system is a hardware win2k3 server attached to a FC SAN with a 2TB SAN volume that holds all our student home directories.

I have ESX 3.5 servers already, and they are attached to the same FC SAN.

My biggest question is: what's the best way to use my SAN for my 2TB volume? Should it be a RDM? Should it just be a 2TB vmfs file?

I will need to be able to vmotion the server in case of hardware failure, so that should also be a consideration. Snapshots would be nice, but not a necessity as we already backup files using our backup software...the backup window is shrinking though...

Thanks for any help!

Mike

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How to segment vms by student logon

dPipkin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:33:23 GMT

I teach security and have been using vmWorkstation so each student can have multiple machines with multiple OS to admin and secure. However, this does not easly allow students to to get access form different locations. The vm images are on local drives.

Does ESX, ESXi, or Server allow users to access a central system and have control over only their systems, including creating new systems?

Any insight would be helpful.

Newbie question about VMWare

SABOEM — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:11:42 GMT

We have been asked to look into server consolidation probably using VMWare. But we want to build a solid infrastructure from the beginning. Can you split physical servers into two separate locations, if one fails would the other location pick up the load. At this point we don't not know what types of applications or servers we would want on this VMWare Server farm. Can this be done with VMWare? Also is the hypervisor in VMWare now 64-bit? What types of software from VMWare would we need to do this project? All servers would be Windows 2003 or Windows 2008. There might be a possibility of linuix.

Any thoughts or opinion are welcome since we are newbies.

New project... is vmware the right choice?

rogernome — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:28:02 GMT

Hi all,

I am new to VMWare.

I wish to create a %99.9 uptime solution using vmware. Two sites perferably. I have 3 servers I need to shove on VM. Domain Controller, SQL Box and Application box. If one site goes down, I need fail over.

Is this something that can be achieved using VMWare. If so, what should I start looking at?

The servers are Windows 2003 Standard 64bit. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 64bit and tomcat server running custom app.

Any help would be appreciated.