I will add one thing to what everyone else has said. VERIFY that the server
hardware will support virtualization! I got bit by this when planning our
move to virtualize all of our servers. One machine has the chip the other
does not. From the pricing and age you are talking about my guess is
Check with your Microsoft rep on this. I was at an MTC recently talking
about virtualization and I'm pretty sure they said that Microsoft offers a
seperate license for desktops that will be virtualized.
See this link for details...it may or may not apply:
Extra credit points for use of minion.
-sc
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From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization
options
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:58 PM
What limits (besides performance) are you seeing on CPU's that don't
have the virtualization extensions?
-sc
From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization
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*Subject:* Re: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
I will add one thing to what everyone else has said. VERIFY that the
server hardware will support virtualization! I got bit by this when
planning our move to virtualize all of our servers. One machine has the
chip
Ahh that's right... Hyper-V is picky.
I've been using ESXi so long I forgot that. ;-)
-sc
From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
Some
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From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
Some of the VM packages like Hyper-V will not even install if the BIOS/chip set
do not support
ESX(i)will install on 32 bit/non VT-capable hardware. Hyper-V won't.
-sc
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
He'd have to check his
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From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
ESX(i)will install on 32 bit/non VT-capable hardware. Hyper-V won't.
-sc
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*Subject:* Re: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
Some of the VM packages like Hyper-V will not even install if the BIOS/chip
set do not support virtualization. I don't know so am not commenting beyond
that. I don't know what
Inheriting some very problematic XP workstations with embedded applications
that have no way of being migrated and need to be preserved. I would like to
make a recommendation to run these as virtualized workstations on a spare
server that I have the option of dedicating for this task. Outside
http://www.amazon.com/Virtualization-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/0470148314
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From: aci [mailto:tkcont...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
Inheriting some very
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From: aci [mailto:tkcont...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
Inheriting some very problematic XP workstations with embedded
applications that have no way of being migrated
[quote]If you are just preserving and they don't need to all be on at the same
time then take your spare server and put Free VMWare server or ESXi on
it. Then use converter to P2V the xp workstations. No cost if you have
all the hardware.
http://vmware.com/products/product_index.html[/quote]
I
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Subject: RE: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
[quote]If you are just preserving and they don't need to all be on at
the same time then take your spare server and put Free VMWare server or
ESXi on it. Then use converter to P2V the xp workstations. No cost
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM, aci tkcont...@yahoo.com wrote:
XP workstations with embedded applications that have no
way of being migrated and need to be preserved.
First, do the embedded applications have any special hardware
associated with them? Especially hardware license keys
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:40 PM, aci tkcont...@yahoo.com wrote:
I understand just preserving However, I am wondering
exactly what you mean when you say, not all be on at the same time...
A VM you've imported is just like the real computer. If you have
both the VM and the original physical
The server that I have to dedicate to it is a very robust dual quad core, 16 GB
RAM, 85 GB Raid1 OS drive 350 GB raid-5 data drive system with a nice 200 GB
internal tape drive thrown in and DRAC, too if I am not mistaken...was about 12
grand when Dell donated it to our organization almost two
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From: aci [mailto:tkcont...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
The server that I have to dedicate to it is a very robust dual quad core, 16 GB
RAM, 85 GB Raid1 OS drive 350 GB raid-5
I understand about the OEM versus Volume licenses issues. However, does VM
check for license compliance before it will either virtualize the system or
host virtual sessions? or are we talking just about being in compliance just to
keep it legal?
Thanks
Aci
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Subject: Re: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
The server that I have to dedicate to it is a very robust dual quad
core, 16 GB RAM, 85 GB Raid1 OS drive 350 GB raid-5 data drive system
with a nice 200 GB internal tape drive thrown in and DRAC, too if I am
not mistaken
: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
Since these are XP machines you will not be able to have multiple
instances of single machine running at once - the section highlighted
below is not correct.
-Brian
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From: aci [mailto:tkcont...@yahoo.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Wed Jun 17 17:45:22 2009
Subject: RE: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
I understand about the OEM versus Volume licenses issues. However, does VM
check for license compliance before it will either
or hopefully call MS and get them to
reactivate.
-Original Message-
From: aci [mailto:tkcont...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
I understand about the OEM versus Volume licenses
:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
Since these are XP machines you will not be able to have multiple
instances of single machine running at once - the section highlighted
below is not correct.
-Brian
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New versions of Remote Desktop can span, but it's not bulletproof.
-sc
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dying XP workstations - what are my virtualization options
someone mentioned to me
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:58 PM, aci tkcont...@yahoo.com wrote:
... graphics editing software ...
As someone else said, you probably won't get acceptable performance
out of graphics editing software on anything but a real hardware
display. Both VM and RDP lose practically all hardware
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