Nightside VM sever

The VM sever has been purchased to provide visrtual operating systems for developers to log into and do development work on a range of different platform such as windows or unix.

I was given this project as part of my computer rep role and I will be doing the following:

• register the machine on the network
• insinstall virtualisation software
• tall an operating system

This task came about after a discussion with bill lee where he had spoken to me about buying the machine from another department after they found it was unsuitable for their needs and it may be usefull for our devcelopment needs.

As this task includes elements of software and hardware work it would be a usefull addition to my experience here on my placement.

Initially I did not know much about the underlying hardware or the virtualisation software. Most of what I learned came from speaking to colleagues and the internet.

I found that as the task progressed I was using the technical terminology more and more, in order to find out what software I needed to suit the hardware requirement I spoke to the technology teams Ian Fiddes to ascertain exactly what the machine speficifation was. In turn I recieved an email from him detailing the spec in order for me to check what the manufacturers requirements were.

I will be using this as a guide to what software will be compatible with our server.