My working environment - Part 3

A while from the last post about this subject… So It’s now time to describe the virtual environment that I set up.

Below is a schema of the permanent network and virtual environment I daily use.

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So I have one Active Directory domain (Windows Server 2008 at forest functional level) in which I have a basic PKI infrastructure, Terminal Servers, WDS servers, a MDT server, a Print server, a SCCM server and several clusters as well as some member servers.

Here is the detail of the most used VMs :

Server Name

Operating System

Role

Host

WS08-DC0 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 Domain Controller DNS Certificate Services DHCP iSCSI Software Target

Hyper-V

WS08-MDT Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 MDT 2008 Update 1 WDS

Hyper-V

WS03-WDS Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 x64 WDS (Mixte mode)

Hyper-V

WS03-PRINT Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 x64 Print Server

Hyper-V

W2K-ISCSI Windows 2000 Server Advanced Edition SP4 File Server used to test iSCSI

Hyper-V

WS08-FC0 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 Cluster Node #1 – Cluster #1

Hyper-V

WS08-FC1 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 Cluster Node #2 – Cluster #1

Hyper-V

WS08-TS0 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 Terminal Services TS RemoteApps

Hyper-V

WS08-TS1 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 Terminal Services TS Web

Hyper-V

WS08-TSG Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 Terminal Services TS Gateway

Hyper-V

WS03-CL4 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 x86 Cluster Node #3 – Cluster #3 (MNS)

Hyper-V

WS03-SCCM Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 x64 SCCM 2007 SP1 WDS (native mode)

Hyper-V

WS03-CL0 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 x86 Cluster Node #1 – Cluster #2

Virtual Server

WS03-CL1 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 x86 Cluster Node #2 – Cluster #2

Virtual Server

WS03-CL2 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 x86 Cluster Node #1 – Cluster #3 (MNS)

Virtual Server

WS03-CL3 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 x86 Cluster Node #2 – Cluster #3 (MNS)

Virtual Server

I have additional virtual machines that are connected to the Corporate Network I used for short term purposes or as backup (as the Vista VM when my laptop is used elsewhere) :

Machine Name

Operating System

Role

V-VISTA Windows Vista Enterprise Edition SP1 x86 My laptop backup
WS08-VMM Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 SCVMM 2008 used as dogfood

So nothing revolutionnary here but I wanted to show that I have some resources to work on issues for almost all situations. At least, on the technology I’m most skilled…

Next post will deal with the tools and ways I use to manage all of this and how I can set up really quickly a new environment if I need it to troubleshoot an issue.

~ Guillaume