Charlesnw: Presentation on VmWare

Charlesnw — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:03:44 GMT

Presentation on VmWare

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==VmWare Presentation Outline==

===My Intro===

* Who am I
o Wouldn't you like to know?
o Name/Vitals
* What I do
o As little as possible :)
o Systems Systems Systems
* Who I work for
o The Mouse
* Where to find out more (website/blog)
o My Website
o My Blog

===VmWare Intro===

* What is it
* What I use it for
o Development
o Windows Software
o Testing upgrades
* What it costs
o Server Version (requires a host)
o ESX Version (bare metal install RH kernel based)

===VmWare Pros/Cons===

* Free/paid versions
* Not open source
* Runs a wide variety of operating systems unmodified

===My Envrionment===
Host

1. OS/Software:
* Minimal Debian (always!) system:
o SSH
o Samba
o Vmware
o Snort
o Tuning?
2. Hardware:
* 2 gigs of ram
* AMD 1.2 Ghz CPU
* 3 hard drives
* 1 200 Gb
* 1 LVM partition

Guest

Guest OS/(virtual)hardware specs:

1. Windows
* 2003 Server SP1
* Vista RC1
* Why I run windows
2. Linux
* Debian Testing (used for development of my exchange replacement)
* Debian Stable (used as a DMZ server to provide Asterisk/LAMP service and VPN endpoint services)
* Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (used to test configuration changes/new stuff instead of messing up my production environment)
* Ubuntu Edgy Eft (used to host my XEN and OpenVZ environment (planned)

===New vm creation (demo)===

1. Vista
2. Ubuntu Edgy

Questions

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