VMware ESXi make the classroom productive at Pittsburgh Technical College
April 03, 2017
VMware ESXi make the classroom productive at Pittsburgh Technical College
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vCenter Server in the classroom environment allows students to be more productive in an ESXi host environment. There are currently over one thousand VMs running on ESXi from Windows Desktops 7,8, 10, Windows Server 2008, Server 2012, and a plethora of Linux distributions. Students have the ability to access the vCenter from a web browser or using the VSphere Client software. This has been a huge time safer for students as in the past each student used an external hard drive to host their virtual machines. When multiple machines were turned on it would take a great deal of processing power of the desktop to run the VM's, with ESXi students are capable of keeping the machines up at all times. This also eliminates the problem of corrupting VMs on external hard drives by not having to shut down VM's which would require students to stay after class. Using Nimble technology in the ESXi the school can now have an entire infrastructure built and functioning for each student.
- Keeps students' work segmented by using administration and VLANs.
- An entire infrastructure can be built per the students' needs.
- Multiple VMs can be used at the same time eliminating the downfalls of VMware Workstation.
- There is a converter tool to switch from VM workstation to Virtual Center Stack. VMs can be transposed across the system.
- When the Virtual Center Stack goes down then all students are affected by zero production.
- When a lot of VMs are spun up at the same time it slows down operations.
- ESXi attempts to provision VMs by moving them, but other tools like Turbonomic don't show the action taking place.
- Increased production and time saving.
- Instructors are able to reach multiple students in a short time by using a management console to connect to a student's VMs.
- Multiple infrastructures can be made in a student's folder.