Hyper V Question

[sjpage10]

I'm new to hyper V

 

can someone tell me is it possible to network boot to a PC to hyper v server (guessing its got to be!)

 

if so how many machines would I be able connect to a windows 8 image on one good server running hyper V

 

thanks

 

Stef

[rich_tech]

Can you explain what you want to do a little more clearly ?

 

You can manage your VMs you have hosted on a server with any PC with hyper-v admin tools.

 

Ideally you want to use Server OS for a VM Host, but you can do it on windows 8 - thats very dependant on the specification of your server though how many VMs you can run.

Edited June 13, 2015 by rich_tech

[sjpage10]

what I'm asking is it possible to boot say 30 machines via the network to a windows 7 or 8 image that is set up with hyper v

 

I see so I would have to have 30 virtual machines on hyper v that can be accessed via a RDP server, this correct ?

[rich_tech]

Its not clear what your trying to achieve to me from the limited information given but ill try and answer in relation to it.

 

If you are on about re-imaging machines with a copy of Windows, then look at MDT (its a microsoft product and works with the newest versions of windows) - thats what we use here to re-image our machines off the network and put our customised windows 7 build onto them (we can do entire suites at a time, but the more machines you have building the slower it will take to rebuild that machine). It takes about 12 minutes on our network to re-image a machine without updates at the moment (they get done daily with our WSUS server).

 

You can host an MDT server on a Hyper-V VM, but it will possibly cause performance issues as it can slow down the Hyper-V network appliance, which is why we kept ours physically separate at our site.

 

The other bit makes me think you may be wanting to set up VMs for people to connect to...

 

In terms of Virtualisation hosting you could host lots of Virtual Machines on a machine and connect to them all, the machine would have to have a fairly high specification to have that many hosted on it with people working away on them simultaneously to not have them get a poor performing services.

 

It sounds like your possibly trying to setup a remote desktop services VDI from what I am reading, that requires Windows Server to be installed for the VM hosting and Remote Desktop Services (setting up a VDI on your network really, quite a large undertaking as you will need CALs and lots of other requirements)

[sjpage10]

thanks that clears it up for me, yes I was thinking of VDi

is it really worth going down that road I have to wonder as our machines though old already run windows 7 so I guess should run 10 ok ?

 

i'll look in to mdt

[rich_tech]

Windows 10 is quite encouraging in that its 15gb less in size from installations compared to 7 if I read right.

 

VDI is a major project there and I think you could turn older machines into thin clients to connect to your desktops, but its not something I have tried myself.

 

also - Microsoft MultiPoint Server is something you may want to look at if your looking to share a single high spec machine amongst multiple people at once.