As noted in a previous post, I deployed a demo environment leveraging Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. While this worked pretty good, I wasn't able to run all of the virtual machines at the same time due to insufficient memory (yes, even 8 GB wasn't enough), so I decided to leverage some additional laptops that I had lying about. And even use another machine that's pretty decent and currently used as my home Windows Home Server machine (it has plenty of extra power). So here is what the new deployment looks like:
- Name: HomeHyperv01
- Dell Precision 690 (Intel Quad-Core, 8GB RAM) [Workstation]
- Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V in Full Installation (Plan on changing this to Server Core when Hyper-V goes RTM)
- Images
- DPM01
- IW01 - Exchange Server 2007 (will look at replacing this soon as this copy is based on Win2003 + Exch2007 x32 Trial Edition)
- MGMT01 - All System Center, MDOP, and ForeFront products
- Plat01 - Windows Server 2003 (Virtual Server 2005 R2)
- SQL01 - SQL Server 2005
- Name: HomeHyperv02
- Dell Inspiron (AMD Turion64, 2 GB RAM) [Laptop]
- Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V in Full Installation
- Images
- AD01, Domain Controller for DemoCorp
- HomeDC, Domain Controller for Home Network
- Name: HomeHyperv03
- HP Compaq nc8430 (Intel Core Duo Centrino, 4 GB RAM) [Laptop]
- Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V in Server Core
- Images
- IW02 - MOSS & OCS
- SQL02 - SQL Server 2008
- Name: Server
- Custom Machine (Dual CPU, Intel Xeon 2.8 Ghz, 4 GB RAM) [Workstation]
- Windows Home Server
- Images
- WinXP01 - Windows XP
- Vista01 - Windows Vista
In order to help with my overall management, I put all of the servers in a Domain called "Home.local", except for the server named, "Server" which is my "Windows Home Server" as WHS can't join a domain. Bummer.
My next project/blog post is to deploy Microsoft ForeFront Client Security. I of course want to protect my client machines, even though it's just for demo. Once I have that done, I'm going to deploy a Windows Server 2008 server in order to enable Network Access Protection in my environment. Once I have that, I can then show off how Windows Server 2008 with NAP + Windows XP SP3/Windows Vista + ForeFront Client makes for a very well secured environment for my network and my desktops. After that I plan on using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) to capture and deploy a copy of those images on demand. Lots of cool stuff. I plan on sharing and then recording a demo of the finished product. Let's just hope it doesn't take me 3 months to get around to it. Hey, I do have a day job. :)