VMware Server Consolidation,

Terminal Services Thin Clients

Senior Design IIIKurt Roberts

Description

Clients Telnet Internet Explorer Microsoft Office

Server Virtualization ~30 Servers, Many low utilization Aging Hardware Ease Future Growth

Design Protocols

Hewlett Packard T5135 Thin Clients

Dell PowerEdge 2950 MS Terminal Services

VMware Enterprise

2x Dell PowerEdge 2950 ESX servers

Performance Monitoring

Performance Monitoring cont.

Average CPU Utilization

Maximum CPU Utilization

Potential Consolidation

Virtualization Demo

2 VMware ESX Servers1 VMware Virtual Center Server1 ISCSI Server

Deliverables

Thin Clients Configuration of Terminal Services Import of first set of client access license’s Minimum 20 Clients

Virtualization Performance Monitoring of 10 or more servers Analysis of Performance Monitoring data to

determine placement Installation and configuration of VMware ESX

server

Future Recommendations

Terminal Services Central Configuration Management

Virtualization VMware HA VMware DRS VMware Consolidated Backup

Questions?