Virtual server mirror. Serving Windows 10 pro desktops to 20x thin clients. Mirror Server: 2x Dell r710 12 cores @ 3GHz, 64GB RAM, w/ Intel 2x 10GBE port and dual 850W Power Storage per server: 2x300GB SSD, 4x146GB SAS 15K, 2x1TB SAS 7.2K Software: M$ Windows 2012r2 Datacenter or Ubuntu Linux 16.04 Architecture: ~20x Read more about Windows 10 VDI deployment: Architecture and Taxonomy[…]
Using CTDB and DNS roundrobin we can also have highly available and load balanced storage shares for our guest VMs. https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-glusterfs-with-a-replicated-volume-over-2-nodes-on-ubuntu-14.04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-redundant-storage-pool-using-glusterfs-on-ubuntu-servers https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/glusterfs-high-availability-through-ctdb/ https://jonarcher.info/2014/06/windows-cifs-fileshares-using-glusterfs-ctdb-highly-available-data/
Get your win2kr2 ISO ready. Download the drivers iso here: virtio-win.iso Download KVM config file here: win2kr2.xml Import the xml file into “Virtual Machine Manager” Edit win2k12r2 machine in “Virtual Machine Manager” Add new 25GB virtio storage drive. Make sure to change type from “IDE” to “VirtIO”. Add cdrom drive connected to virtio-win.iso Connect your install Read more about Howto run Windows 2012R2 Server under KVM with high performance networking, hard drive, and display drivers. on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial.[…]
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Five different ways of accomplishing the same thing.
REDUNDANCY and reasonable availability for a reasonable price.
Cloud
Hardware: 6x Servers
Software: MS Windows Hyper-V cluster, or Ubuntu Linux Cloud
Dual 3.5″ and 2.5″ SATA with offline clone feature USB 2.0 SATA USB 3.0 SATA For your 9mm laptop optical drive. Sometimes they’re 12mm.
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I ended up switching to Thinstation instead of Tiny Core Linux How To : Remaster Tiny Core Linux http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:remastering http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=17423.0 Download the iso ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/ mount the iso copy contents
How to mount a qcow2 disk image on Ubuntu