Virtual Server Deployment Manager 1.3.0 (VSDM)

If you're a virtualization lover, there's a tool out that you can't miss: Virtual Server Deployment Manager 1.3.0 (VSDM).

The Virtual Server Deployment Manager Tools provides a streamlined way to manage and deploy Virtual Machines. Using this tool, regular users (not just administrators) will be able to create and manage their own machines, without impacting other users' machines.

The original Virtual Server administration is very powerful but also very complex to use, expecially for a regular user (not acquainted with administration processes) and therefore suitable to mistakes. One of the most critical mistakes this infra-structure provides support to avoid is when a user inadvertently modifies or damages other user’s machines.

After that, the system started evolving to include other features. It ended being transformed to a system that deploys Virtual Machines for users based on a newly developed concept of templates.

A VSDM Template is a Virtual Machine Hard Disk image that is used as a master image, just like an image that you use for generating a CD to a new blank media. Once the user creates an image based on the template, they will have a "clone" (yet not expensive) replica of the original template that he can change without affecting the original image.

To run this infrastructure, you’ll need just an IIS Web Server, .NET Framework 1.1 and Virtual Server installed.

Print | posted on Friday, April 15, 2005 9:43 AM

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