Virtual Classroom Question
Scott N.
I attended a training last month in a hotel conference room. The instructor walked in with a virtual classroom (using VMware) on a 1TB external drive plus a small router. He booted up and gave us an IP address to type into our browser. Subsequently, we each entered in a unique ID (Train1, Train2, etc.) and voila! We were all logged into our own virtual environment where we could test and run a fully functional piece of software.
I asked the Instructor how it was set up and all he would tell me was that he was using VMware.
The company I work for uses VMware for remote connectivity, but the people I spoke to want to create something that looks more complicated than what I experienced.
The company I work for uses VMware for remote connectivity, so I want to be able to tap into their licenses without having to purchase much else, if possible.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to get an easy answer as to how such a virtual classroom can be created? On another blog it was suggested Vagrant might have been used to set this up. Ideas?
Thanks.
Alvaro Miranda Aguilera
Depending of what you want to do, you can use Vagrant.
for 1 single VM on each person laptop/desktop
- you could use Vagrant to create a VM
for multiple VM on a laptop/desktop
- you could use Vagrant to create multiples VM
For multiples VMs on a Server using VMWAre ESXi or vSphere
- You can use Vagrant and a plugin
Vagrant is open source and free, however for VMWare Fusion or VMWare
Workstation there is a paid plugin. More info you can email
sup...@hashicorp.com
For ESXi or vSphere, the vagrant and the plugin are free
https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere
The user experience using those or Vagrant + virtualbox are similar,
so my suggestion will be give go to Vagrant first with Virtualbox so
you can see what you will be dealing with, to see if fits your
expectations.
Let me know if this answer your question, or if I leave anything un-answered.
Thanks
Alvaro.
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