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HEAnet 2009

HEAnet 2009. Paul Doyle: Lecturer School of Computing Chairman of UCRG Dublin Institute of Technology Experiences in desktop virtualisation. Finding the cloud . Working at Sun Working – “Hot Desking ” Working at CR2 – Remote Labs Working at DIT – Remote Desktop.

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HEAnet 2009

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  1. HEAnet 2009 Paul Doyle: Lecturer School of Computing Chairman of UCRG Dublin Institute of Technology Experiences in desktop virtualisation

  2. Finding the cloud • Working at Sun Working – “Hot Desking” • Working at CR2 – Remote Labs • Working at DIT – Remote Desktop

  3. Finding Motivation • Save the Planet ! • Save on IT costs/staff ! • Improve the Service ! • Save Space !

  4. Downside? • Acceptance? • Quality of Service/ Altered Service • Hidden Costs? • Higher Risk?

  5. Lets try...again. Pilot Rules • Do it in 4 weeks • Use existing authentication • Match existing services • Keep it running! • Help ask better questions

  6. Stages • Week 1 & 2 – Build & verify network • Week 3 & 4 - Build Test & Rollout • Week 5 – Go-Live • Week 6-12 – Monitor/Tweak/Support/Survey • Week 13 - Decommission

  7. Get Help! • Sun • Horizon • Dell • Microsoft • Fujitsu • HP • VMware

  8. What to build? Bolton St. Library Tech Support Kevin Street Admin Home Support Home Support Eng Labs Eng Labs Aungier Street LAB Aungier Street LAB Kiosks

  9. What to build? WTS SunRay WTS SunRay LTSP LTSP VMWare VMWare XEN x4150 x4150 x4150 Shared Storage

  10. Stress • Guessing the supportable load • Outages (Network/Snapshot/VM) • Tuning a live system late at night • Cloning/Backups/Recover/Balancing • Lack of clustering/redundancy

  11. Highlights • New lab in 60 minutes.... • Uptime Record • Invisibility/Acceptance • Multiple TC integrated

  12. Satisfaction?

  13. Conclusion? • Get help! Think Enterprise • Beware “fix by re-engineer/upgrade” “Help” • Performance/Tuning/Loading - guesswork • Storage MAY be an issue – USB/Web/Central • Audio/Video/Web 2.0

  14. Finally! Don’t go 100% Virtual – yet…

  15. Thank You!

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