Refreshing Training Room Virtual Image every night

[password1234]

Hi!Just after some adviseHas anyone ever worked on Training room setup and scenario before?We offer SIMS Training to candidates across school they usually come to our offices onsite and is led by an instructorAt the moment the way its setup is that Candidates login to a windows 10 machine and they launch oracle VM and launch an instance of a Virtual machine and conduct the training every day, then once the class is finish for the day the VM is then refreshed using some Batch files which pulls down an 70gig virtual image every night to the computers, so the next day when candidates are around they login and launch a new instance of the VM that was downloaded the previous night not really idea but it works, so we looking to get away from this completelyWe have brand new server really powerful so we are possibly looking at creating a bunch of HyperV machines on this server and allow users to RDP back to these VMs from the workstations in the training room to conduct their training, so then the next bit we need to figure out how to refresh the Hyper V images either everynight automatically or manuallyAnyone ever done something similar before or have a better suggestion?Citrix/VDI route going to be quite of an overkill to us, was wondering if we can work off something we have at the moment Edited September 13, 2022 by password1234

[round2it]

deepfreeze?

 

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Edited September 13, 2022 by round2it

[mjhardisty]

In your lab environment/server hat about creating a template VM in Hyper-V - can you then delete the existing machines and then clone the template VM overnight?

[jthompson]

You could set your existing VM to have an immutable VHD, assuming you're using VirtualBox. That would mean that writes wouldn't persist between each use of the VM, and you wouldn't need to redploy it each night.