Posted on 11/01/2009 4:14:13 PM PST by killermosquito
I’m kindof thinking that I would want to use RAID in order to mirror the primary drive on the secondary drive. I’m assuming then that if one of the drives failed it would be fast and easy to resume operations without losing any data or configuations. Sort of just picking up where I left off when the drive failed if you take my meaning.
I want to be able to remote desktop into my home PC to access files. I carry around a 16 gig USB key but occasionally I want a file that I don’t have with me or I want to make sure I have the most recent version of the file which may not be the one on the USB key.
I’m serious about learning about virtualization on a desktop PC. I don’t have a server. I’m also serious about disaster recovery and I’m thinking a mirrored drive might be the best form of RAID for my purposes.
I think my valid requirement to do virtualization is my desire to have on one PC multiple installations including:
Windows XP Pro with Office 2003
Windows XP Pro with Office 2007
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 with Office 2007
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 with Office 2010 (eventually)
Ubuntu with OpenOffice
I also do Microsft Office training both at a college and at a computer center. At the center I could potentially teach Office 2003 or 2007 so I would like to have access to both on my home PC since I use it to make and modify curriculum.
I was just kidding about the geek thing. I’m a bit of a geek myself, otherwise I wouldn’t have read your post. Good luck with the job search. Even those of us that still have jobs are a bit worried that our jobs won’t be around much longer if something doesn’t change soon.
Otherwise it'll be a hodgepode of OS + VM ware virtualization and then you're missing the whole Server 2008 R2 platform possibilities while still having significant software costs.
For that task, I've recently begun using Dropbox. It works quite well.
Correction: Exchange 2010 will fully replace Exchange 2003 in enterprise environments.
If you’re using Windows 7, you might want to take a look a WinRM. It enables you to access a remote Powershell session on one or more target machines. There should be considerably less bandwidth overhead than a full rdp session, and it runs over HTTPS, which makes firewall configuration much easier. You can further secure by configuring the remote session to require a certificate based authentication.
If you’re using Windows 7, you might want to take a look a WinRM. It enables you to access a remote Powershell session on one or more target machines. There should be considerably less bandwidth overhead than a full rdp session, and it runs over HTTPS, which makes firewall configuration much easier. You can further secure by configuring the remote session to require a certificate based authentication.
If you’re using Windows 7, you might want to take a look a WinRM. It enables you to access a remote Powershell session on one or more target machines. There should be considerably less bandwidth overhead than a full rdp session, and it runs over HTTPS, which makes firewall configuration much easier. You can further secure by configuring the remote session to require a certificate based authentication.
Sorry about that.
Thank you all for giving me so much to think about! Especially usconservative...WOW! Your post was amazing!
Freepers are the best.
You might want to revisit Virtualbox. Since Sun took it over, it has made huge leaps. Vbox is what I’m more used to, so I’m admittedly biased in that regard, but I do have both on my system. In particular, the ‘seamless’ mode in Virtualbox is MUCH better than VMware. Particularly with a Linux host.
For enterprise use, I’d go for VMWare or Xen, but on a workstation, Virtualbox is a great option.
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