Virtualization & Cloud Computing Forum

Project Required Hardware/Software

ady486 — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 23:03:14 GMT

I am planning to build a virtualised desktop for my College project, I have done some research of what kind of software i will be needed i.e Virtualbox, Vmware and I am looking to using a Bare-metal hypervisor for this Project. The project is small in scope so i require to be able to provide at least 2-3 desktop images. I would like some feedback on what hardware and software i need and what kind of security elements i should look into to make sure i am properly prepared for the project as i have not done something like this before.

Thanks. :)

VirtualBox vs Hyper-v: which is best for resource utilization

turkey-day-meal — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:23:23 GMT

All I need is a way to run an instance of Windows or Linux inside a virtual machine, so I can route that machines connection through a VPN service (Like CyberGhostVPN) and leave the rest of my machine untouched, so it can connect to the internet directly.

I would like to know if Hyper-V would allow the virtual machine to "share" any unneeded resources (CPU or RAM for example), so I can maximize the abilities of both the host and the guest.

I've checked with Intel and have been told my CPU is capable of running hyper-v but I've read that I'd need to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, instead of the plain old Windows 8 that I'm running now.

Thanks for reading and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Create Two SR with one HDD in Citrix.

hack3rcon — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:52:11 GMT

Hello all.
Can I create two SR on one HDD in Citrix? Is it possible?

Cheers.

CitrixXen create 24GB Template!!!

hack3rcon — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:51:04 GMT

Hello all.
I have a HP sever with 8TB HDDs and use RAID 50. I create three Storage from Storage1 to Storage3 for Citrix. when I want to create new VM, Citrix Create 24GB template by default, What is it? How can I solve this problem?

Cheers.

Require guidance in planning 2 physical servers with a SAN

Gary — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:13:44 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Hope that I've posted in the right place.Firstly, I have a small infrastructure visualization that I need guidance which I am still new with it.

Infrastructure:

2 physical servers with Hyper-V server 2012
x2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor E5-2430L 2.00GHz, 15M Cache, 7.2GT/s QPI, Turbo, 6C, 60W
48 GB RAM
Total of 12 virtual machines on each physical server with HA
1 SAN plus 1 hot spare with 2 controllers
IP address: 192.168.0.0/23

Planned setups

[DR Plan] Each physical servers will only host 6 VM. When 1 VM crash/offline, the other physical server will host it by grabbing the images from the SAN storage.
Setting up onboard NIC with 2x Lan Port to teaming.
Get another NIC Gbit with 2x Lan Port for iSCSI

Linkage
Physical_1 --onboard NIC with team--> Gbit Intranet Switch --> Internet
Physical_2 --onboard NIC with team--> Gbit Intranet Switch --> Internet
Physical_1 --Gbit NIC iSCSI direct--> SAN
Physical_2 --Gbit NIC iSCSI direct--> SAN
SAN --ethernet Lan--> Gbit Intranet Switch

Questions

How to distribute VP to VM? For Hyper-V, does 1 core equals to 1 VP? Please kindly correct me on this.
How do i technically set-up HA in contrast to planned setup 1 above. Link to the setup would be much appreciated?
Is it possible to fully backup the images with VSS only or do I need a 3rd party software to do so?

Hopefully everyone can help out in guiding me to my questions

Thank you in advance for reading.

Mobile Desktop

Bandersnatch — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:49:05 GMT

Hi, folks, I'm new here.

I'm here looking for information on just how close we are to the ability to have a Windows/Linux/Macos desktop running in a VM hosted on a mobile device. I like the idea of being able to plug my phone into a KVM-dock & have my desktop all ready to go. Top-end phone are certainly powerful enough. Is anyoe doing this?

Also looking for insights as to how dependable the security layer is between the carrier & the VM.

Thanks for any feedback!

-B

Unique QMid registry edit with a cloned image

4_gatch — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:40:21 GMT

I have multiple pools with hundreds of virtual desktops based off of a single base image. In order to recieve messages from a certain application per desktop the QMid needs to generate a new key for every desktop session. The QMid is found under HKLM
The only solution I have found deals with not installing MSMQ on the base image and instead having a startup batch script to install MSMQ once the session is created and another VBS script to determine the computers name in AD then remove the msmq ocnfig object within.

This would require larger changes to our VMenvironment so I am
looking for a better solution if there is one??