IT TechRecording and Virtual Machines

Doug Waterman

Topics

• Communicating with your office computer• VPN• Remote Desktop• Recording Lectures

• Virtual Machines• **Sneak Peak**

Communicating with your Office Computer

• VPN• Allows you to securely connect to the FVTC network from

your home.• Staff VPN Access

Communicating with your Office Computer

• Remote Desktop• Allows you to connect to your

office computer from any other computer on the FVTC network.

Software for Recording

• Software• Adobe Connect• Allows remote users to watch lecture in real time• Requires a microphone on the room computer• Limited post-delivery editing

• Camtasia PC $166 Mac $99• Does not allow remote users to watch lecture in real time• Extensive editing capabilities• Requires encoding • Allows for multiple audio and video tracks• Can record audio on separate device and marry with video in

post production.• 30-day free trial

Hardware

• Microphone• Olympus ME 51S $39

• Digital Voice Recorder (if not recording using the room computer microphone)• Olympus WS-331M $125

Demo

Virtualization

Virtualization

• Run multiple operating systems on a single computer (Windows, Linux, Windows Server)

• Run your virtual machine on PC/Mac using only your browser

• Virtual machine is actually running on FVTC servers, client machine is only for display.

• Allow students to interact with their machine from anywhere they have broadband access.

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Benefits

• Manageability increased (create one image and clone multiple machines)

• Allows multiple machines per student (client to server to domain controller)

• Access from anywhere• Once a machine is created, can clone machine for other

instructors.• Emulates the environment medium and large companies

are starting to use.

Caveats

• Up-front costs are high.• First set of Servers and SAN (Storage Area Network) =

$120,000

• Virtual Technology is evolving rapidly• Need someone that REALLY understands how

everything works together to make it function.

Demo VM

Sneak Peek

• Citrix Application Virtualization

Questions