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Tell us how you are handling the wave of virtual machines on your network.
the same way I handle my real machines. All of the real machines I am responsible for have virtual machines and they have the same firewall, AV, spyware tools and use different dedicated ip addresses.
Anything else is not allowed. Most of my users have a virtual machine for their job function and a separate virtual machine for internet access only. Very few of them need internet access for their job function. That way if they something happens, I just delete the virtual machine and re-create it. I have never had a problem on a real machine. One user has a need for four virtual machines due to his job. We, he and I have worked very closely to keep all five of his network appearances secure.
It is actually easier to setup a virtual machine to give an individual position workgroup access than it is to attempt to control all of the group permissions. This is probably a hold over from the days of dedicated servers and dumb terminals for workstations rather than PCs for workstations.
It is amazing how well a 3.2 GHz Pentium IV with 3 Gigabytes of ram runs the real machine and four 512 megabyte virtual machines.
Anything else is not allowed. Most of my users have a virtual machine for their job function and a separate virtual machine for internet access only. Very few of them need internet access for their job function. That way if they something happens, I just delete the virtual machine and re-create it. I have never had a problem on a real machine. One user has a need for four virtual machines due to his job. We, he and I have worked very closely to keep all five of his network appearances secure.
It is actually easier to setup a virtual machine to give an individual position workgroup access than it is to attempt to control all of the group permissions. This is probably a hold over from the days of dedicated servers and dumb terminals for workstations rather than PCs for workstations.
It is amazing how well a 3.2 GHz Pentium IV with 3 Gigabytes of ram runs the real machine and four 512 megabyte virtual machines.
I need OS 5 licences per machine instead of one!
Do you have enough licences to cover all that?
Do you have enough licences to cover all that?
Yes, we have five licenses for the virtual software, OS, firewall, and anti virus are on this one set of hardware. I never said we were Microsoft only, and I did not say we were Open Source only. We are a mix and even use Windows 98 on some positions. All of the real machines are still running Windows XP.Very little software ever gets discarded, and Depending on the OS And the licensing agreements, we always have more OS licenses than are required.
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