Virtual Server 2005

Who's using Virtual Server 2005 for their labs?

I'm just wondering, instead of using multiple machines and wasting time for the installs, is this just as effective for setting up GPO's, managing shares, using DFS and RIS installations?

What about the client side for testing permissions/home-Profiles/and GPO's?

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geekie

Using Differencing Disks and sysprep it takes me about 5 - 10 mins to set up a new VM in Virtual Server.

Gabe7055

I use it for my test lab and I haven't had any problems. with a high end processor and 2 gigs of ram I have my AD, my EX2007, and my Sharepoint boxes running on it and it really is great for just testing.

Heck I know some companies that actually use virtual servers for real life production servers.

Orion82698

Nice!!

Is there a Workstation version that free as well?

NPA24

I prefer VMWare over Virtual Server. It has more features.

Webmaster

orion82698 wrote:

Nice!!

Is there a Workstation version that free as well?

www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

Orion82698

NPA24 wrote:

I prefer VMWare over Virtual Server. It has more features.

A guy in my office was just telling me the exact same thing. I'm looking into that as well.

tibul

dont you have to pay for VMWARE? or is it free like the virtual server one?

Orion82698

Webmaster wrote:

orion82698 wrote:

Nice!!

Is there a Workstation version that free as well?

www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

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Duh

I feel like a moron.

Thanks man!

sprkymrk

orion82698 wrote:

NPA24 wrote:

I prefer VMWare over Virtual Server. It has more features.

A guy in my office was just telling me the exact same thing. I'm looking into that as well.

I don't care for virtual servers in general, although I see their usefulness. I agree with VMWare being better than MS Virtual Server.

Webmaster

orion82698 wrote:

Duh I feel like a moron.

Thanks man!

You're welcome, for the link

I also agree VMware wins, but the simplicity of Virtual PC makes it ideal for students/beginners. Besides preparing for exams, it's ideal for running betas.

karson wong

I'm preparing to 290 test. Can you guy tell me how to setup a Virtual PC to practice in fully detail?

Thank you very much!

mrjawbones

tibul wrote:

dont you have to pay for VMWARE? or is it free like the virtual server one?

VMWare has a free server and they also have pre-built appliances that you can download. Very sweet.
http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html

We use ESX servers running on RedHat in our corporate environment and I think we currently have about 26 virtual servers running in our production environment.