July 1, 2008 at 5:04 am
Hello,
Right, im sure someone on here should be able to help as you are all clever people!
Okay, the company i work develops a medical software application (VB6 and SQL 2000) that we have been selling to people to surgeons/doctors to use on laptops. However, because we are adding to it all the time its getting a pain to keep visiting the users to upgrade their laptops.
Anyways, we have decided to offer a hosted solution for these users but due to the way the application works and data protection we need to offer a virtual xp install for each user to login to via RDP over the interweb.
We are looking to use Virtual Server 2005 with a beefed up server to serve maybe 30 instances (each instance will be XP Pro and our Application).
Now, the question, is it possible to pool the instances of XP on our VS? For example, we dont want to be running 30 instances all the time as we will only ever get maybe 15 users usinmg it at any one time. We want a user to point RDP at say hosted.ourdomain.com and login which will point them to an empty instance. A login script will then configure that instance for that user.
Is such a thing possible?
We cant user terminal services as our application has some ssystem wide settings (which will vary for each user).
Thanks,
Matt.
July 1, 2008 at 7:47 am
I'm not sure that you can start pool those instances in any way. It's possible that you might be able to programmatically drive Virtual Server and start up new instances when you have, say 2, left with no logins, but I'm not sure.
There might be more options with something like VMware, but really it sounds like a Citrix type problem.
July 1, 2008 at 8:46 am
Steve, thanks for your input.
Im thinking we may just have to go down the route of having one instance per customer so they would connect to it via username.ourdomain.com.
Citrix is out of the question im afraid as the users have to be able to connect from any windows pc without additional software like the citrix client.
Thanks,
Matt.
July 1, 2008 at 8:47 am
Oh, and VMWare is out of the question as its so damn expensive! We want to use MS products as we are MS Partners 🙁
Matt.
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