Virtual Terminal Server with Read Only VHD
hello everyone,
a few days ago i was talking to a system administrator who was bragging about his virtual server environment, who doesn't? He told me he had 12 virtual terminal servers who all are using the same VHD to boot from.
i did not ask him how he got that working but when i told my manager he ordered me to build an testing environment and show him this would work.
could someone help me to get started and tell me where to look.
i included a systematic drawing of our desired structure.
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a few days ago i was talking to a system administrator who was bragging about his virtual server environment, who doesn't? He told me he had 12 virtual terminal servers who all are using the same VHD to boot from.
i did not ask him how he got that working but when i told my manager he ordered me to build an testing environment and show him this would work.
could someone help me to get started and tell me where to look.
i included a systematic drawing of our desired structure.
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ASKER
so if i am wright,
i need to:
- install a clean server
- install drivers
- configure the server
- install software
create a new VM with "differential vhd's" linked to the disk of the server i already installed.
then change settings on the virtual terminal servers and it should work?
is it possible to link those VM's to a disk witch only contains the files and data of the physical terminal server without the operating system actualy is running?
i need to:
- install a clean server
- install drivers
- configure the server
- install software
create a new VM with "differential vhd's" linked to the disk of the server i already installed.
then change settings on the virtual terminal servers and it should work?
is it possible to link those VM's to a disk witch only contains the files and data of the physical terminal server without the operating system actualy is running?
everything you say is ok...but not quite sure about the last statement - I don't quite understand what you are saying.
ASKER
i hope this is more understandable,
is it possible to install the physical server and then copy all the files to (or move the entire harddisk to) our storage solution?
is it possible to install the physical server and then copy all the files to (or move the entire harddisk to) our storage solution?
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ASKER
just needed to get some help to get started.
To quote HYPER-V:-
'...This type of disk is associated in a parent-chile relationship with another disk that you want to leave intact. You can make changes to the data or operating system without affecting the partent disk, so that you can revert changes easily...'.
So to translate that for you, when you choose differencing disks, a new VHD is created but the onlt data written to that VHD will be data that is unique to that virtual machine - i.e. registry, hostname, IP details, swap files, temp files etc.
Does that help?