Hosted services question
Hi all
We have been assigned to setup an infrastructure were we shall provide terminal server services over the internet for 5 different companies(in the future maybe more). Each of these companies must work independently.
We have been thinking to deploy vmware vsphere scenario to accomplish this task.
Our question is regarding securing each company's virtual network from the each other. We don't want company A to be able to see the network shares of company B etc. I assume the only way to accomplish this is by implementing VLANS. Is it right thinking? If yes we are a bit confused about which vsphere products can do exactly what we want.
Is it right to have this scenario behind a single WAN IP and have an internal router do the NAT or have a different WAN IPs for each company?
We want to deploy vsphere essentials plus in order to provide backup and HA services and this is because this is a small size company we are a bit limited to budget.
We would appreciate if we had some professional opinion regarding the above scenario
Thanks
We have been assigned to setup an infrastructure were we shall provide terminal server services over the internet for 5 different companies(in the future maybe more). Each of these companies must work independently.
We have been thinking to deploy vmware vsphere scenario to accomplish this task.
Our question is regarding securing each company's virtual network from the each other. We don't want company A to be able to see the network shares of company B etc. I assume the only way to accomplish this is by implementing VLANS. Is it right thinking? If yes we are a bit confused about which vsphere products can do exactly what we want.
Is it right to have this scenario behind a single WAN IP and have an internal router do the NAT or have a different WAN IPs for each company?
We want to deploy vsphere essentials plus in order to provide backup and HA services and this is because this is a small size company we are a bit limited to budget.
We would appreciate if we had some professional opinion regarding the above scenario
Thanks
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Thank you for your comment.
We have setup more than 20 ESXi hypervisors, both paid and free versions, but we haven't been asked to setup such scenario before.
I would like to have some more information regarding the specific questions i have asked.
Thanks
We have setup more than 20 ESXi hypervisors, both paid and free versions, but we haven't been asked to setup such scenario before.
I would like to have some more information regarding the specific questions i have asked.
Thanks
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VMware vSphere Hypervisor is the new name for ESXi.
The free download is available from here
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html
you need to register to download for free.
The latest versions is ESX 4.1 U1
Here are the documents
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esxi41_i_vc41.html
Getting Started Guide
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_esxi_i_get_start.pdf
Please make sure you server is on the Hardware Compatibility List
http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/search.php
and you use a 64 bit server and enable Intel Virtualisation Tecnology also called Intel-VT.
compare the differences between ESX and ESXi (the replacement for ESX)
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/esxi-and-esx/compare.html