Server 2012 Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services Advice
I have a Server 2012 Standard that I installed Hyper-V on.  I am looking at setting up 3-4 installs of Windows 8.1 for clients who work remotely.  The Server has two Nics, I setup Hyper-V to use the 2nd Nic, it will only be used for Hyper-V and the VMs that I am setting up.  Was looking at going down the Remote Desktop Services road and creating a collection of Desktops but reading through it I wonder if that is over-kill.  It sounds more like for companies that have hundreds of desktops.  Can I just setup 4 Desktops of Windows 8.1 in Hyper-V for the clients to connect to?  Any Advice on how I should do this?
January 29th, 2014 1:20am

Hi,

For testing should be no problem. Besides than NIC, you also need to consider cpu & memory as well on the physical server and allocation to the guest VM.

For more info, please refer to step by step guide for RDS:- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/07/07/new-step-by-step-guides-available-for-remote-desktop-services.aspx?Redirected=true


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January 29th, 2014 1:30am

Thank you for the reply.  Well it would be more than testing, it would be permanent solution for the remote users.  I already have one VM setup, I created a vdi hard disk then installed Windows 8.1 to it.  I do have the Remote Desktop Services installed but it was during the setup process of creating a virtual desktop collection that I started thinking maybe this was more than what I needed.  The Server Specs are

-ASUS P8B-M LGA 1155 Intel C204 Micro ATX Intel Xeon E3 Server Motherboard
-Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 69W Quad-Core Server Processor
-Kingston 32GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) ECC Unbuffered Server Memory
-Adaptec RAID 6405E 2271700-R 6Gb/s SATA/SAS 4 internal ports w/ 128MB cache memory Controller Card, Kit
-4 Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD5000HHTZ 500GB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard drive

- Antec High Current Pro HCP-750 750W TX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

January 29th, 2014 2:42am

hi,

May be you can refer to this deployment guide:- http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/1/8/618657D7-9D3F-42BD-89F8-8C8963F9EC91/Windows_Server_2012_VDI_Deployment_Guide.pdf. This document do talk about memory, cpu , bandwidth, etc.

Quad core & 32 GB of memory for 4 VMs should be no problem. With 2 NIC, (one for management and another for virtual switch) is just enough. It would be great if you can add till 4 NIC.

Besides, i notice the disk is using SATA. may be performance will be a slightly impacted. 

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January 29th, 2014 3:12am

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