Host VM machines and use as needed
Hi All,
We have a need to create virtual machines for our sales folks and ship it/have them download it. WE use amazon s3 for the downloads. Once downloaded, the sales folks run it off their laptops or usb drives.
I was wondering if there was a service where I could upload these vm's and have them actually run it off the cloud. We tried using VM SErver to let them run it from our servers but for some reason, performace was sub optimal i.e. vm would run slow. It could be our bandwidth limitations.
Does Amazon EC2 or MS AZure allow for such machines to be uploaded and run from their infrastructure?
We have a need to create virtual machines for our sales folks and ship it/have them download it. WE use amazon s3 for the downloads. Once downloaded, the sales folks run it off their laptops or usb drives.
I was wondering if there was a service where I could upload these vm's and have them actually run it off the cloud. We tried using VM SErver to let them run it from our servers but for some reason, performace was sub optimal i.e. vm would run slow. It could be our bandwidth limitations.
Does Amazon EC2 or MS AZure allow for such machines to be uploaded and run from their infrastructure?
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You could also investigate options by VMware, VMware vSphere 4.x, 5.x, VMware View 4.6, 5.0, which allows Virtual Machins to be "checked out" and run locally on their laptops, and then checked back in again.
You could checkout VMware Player 4.0 (free), or VMware Workstation with ACE, which allows you to create distributable VMs, for them to run locally on their laptops, or see previous first post, converting VMs, to and from Amazon Cloud.
You could checkout VMware Player 4.0 (free), or VMware Workstation with ACE, which allows you to create distributable VMs, for them to run locally on their laptops, or see previous first post, converting VMs, to and from Amazon Cloud.
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Thanks all. I will look into the Amazon EC2 & rackspace options. will report back in a couple of days.
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Hi All,
I looked into Amazon EC2, MS Azure and Rackspace. My requirement was to run Windows 7 instances from the cloud. Unfiortunately neither provider does this. They only support Windows servers (makes sense).
Thanks for all your input.
I looked into Amazon EC2, MS Azure and Rackspace. My requirement was to run Windows 7 instances from the cloud. Unfiortunately neither provider does this. They only support Windows servers (makes sense).
Thanks for all your input.
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