How I Manage Servers in my House

re: How I Manage Servers in my House

Justin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:43:43 GMT

Hey Ben,

This post has inspired me to build one of these for my house to host a WHS and provide a test platform for all the various MS technologies I need to know about. One question, is your Hyper-V-DC a host for the VMM server?

Thanks for the great blog!

re: How I Manage Servers in my House

Benjamin Armstrong — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:13:09 GMT

Phoenix2Life -

At the moment I am the only user of MED-V in my house. I have toyed with the idea of using App-V for both myself and others in my house - but I have not had the time to make this come to fruition.

Cheers,

Ben

re: How I Manage Servers in my House

Phoenix2Life — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:34:15 GMT

Very elegant way of looking at home infrastructure over wire. Really like the setup and ideas. Interestingly enough you have mentioned about SCOM console. I have read about it but has not put my hands on it. Will try it.

Have you given a shot to APP-V or MED-V kind of scenarios where family members can have their apps on netbooks or thin desktops. ? Just curious because I am thinking to stream various games, music collection, productivity tools using that and looking for tips on it.

Thanks to share your home infrastructure management configuration.

Phoenix2Life

re: How I Manage Servers in my House

Benjamin Armstrong — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:39:20 GMT

Ariel Antigua / betterzerg -

I have done management of Hyper-V in a workgroup environment, but yes - it is much easier in a domain environment.

Jack -

The SCOM console provides me with a good way to look at event log / performance monitoring of my servers, and I can use Remote Desktop from there - however I cannot create virtual machines / view the DHCP leases / perform general role configuration and management. Which means that I have to open seperate tools for those actions - which is why I prefer using MMC.

Alberto -

I have looked at SMS, but haven't had the time to figure out whether it makes sense in my house.

Cheers,

Ben

re: How I Manage Servers in my House

Alberto — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:59:57 GMT

I'm surprised you don't use SMS

re: How I Manage Servers in my House

jack — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:40:19 GMT

Never heard of the SCOM Operations Console?

re: How I Manage Servers in my House

betterzerg — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:16:47 GMT

Agreed, managing Hyper-V servers without a domain is somewhat frustrating. SCVMM will even refuse to run. The new 10-second guide for HVRemote is excellent though.

re: How I Manage Servers in my House

Ariel Antigua — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:20:07 GMT

Nice the way you manage all that, i think that my problem right now is all the stuff i have to open to administer my servers at home, i`m using ESXi atm but after reading the setup you got there i`m starting to think about migrating to Hyper-V. A few days ago i installed Hyper-V R2 but was a pain to start managing from my Win7 without a domain.