VMware's version of this is VDI - it's pretty good, but it's not cheap - it needs a special kind of ESX license so you can't run those desktops on your existing servers, they need to be on dedicated ESX/VDI servers.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 02:33:11PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > Do these virtual machines have to run 24/7? If not, you could automatically > shut them down at 2 AM - either from your hypervisor, or with the > shutdown.exe command. > > When you do that, you could leave the VMs simply sitting there taking up disk > space, or you can check the file date of the .VMDK file for that VM. > > By the way, some vendors have yet another solution that might work for you. > Has nothing to do with Nagios. You can auto-create virtual machines as > needed. Basically, you just create one template XP VM image. Only when a user > logs on, this template is cloned. When the user logs off, the clone is > destroyed. The next time the same user logs on, he gets a completely fresh > virgin copy of XP. > > Citrix has something like this, and I believe Microsoft also is working on > offering something similar. I'm sure VMWare does, too, but I haven't heard > anything specific about it. > -- Richard Clark rich...@fohnet.co.uk
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