Virtual Machine Cloning

Christopher H. MurrayEastern Kentucky University

Computer Electronic Networking

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Outline The original concept Motivation Problem Statement Proposed and Final Solutions Results and Conclusions Future Possibilities

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The Original Concept Using an image program, specifically

Norton Ghost, deploy an image from one virtual machine to another without effecting the operating system of the host/physical box which the virtual machines are installed on.

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Motivation For administration purposes it is useful to use

standardized settings and features. Using virtual machines allows for faster

disaster (crash) recovery. The importance of having 100% uptime is

financial “time is money” and often government regulations for certain industries.

Virtual machines have the ability to increase the efficiency of the host machine. 25-30% processor usage to 75-80%

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Problem Statement To clone a virtual machine and

deploy that clone to other host machines via a network from a central system thus creating identical virtual machines on those hosts.

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Proposed Solutions The methods I took into

consideration Norton Ghost v14.0 EMCO Remote Deployment Kit Radmin 3.1

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Radmin 3.1 MethodInstalled Microsoft Virtual PC on two systems and loaded Microsoft XP Professional onto the first machine.

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Radmin 3.1 Method Cont. Installed

the Radmin “Viewer” on the local system and the “Server” on the remote system.

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Radmin 3.1 Method Cont. With the

Viewer, remote into the Server using a username and password setup on the server side.

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Radmin 3.1 Method Cont. I now

have full control over the remote system.

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Radmin 3.1 Method Cont. With the

Radmin File Transfer option choose the files to copy from the local system to the remote system and choose the destination for them.

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Radmin 3.1 Method Cont. Once

the .vmz and .vhd files are copied to the “My Virtual Computers” file on the remote system both machines have identical virtual machines.

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Results Even though it wasn’t done the way I

had intended when I began, using this method it is easy to deploy from a server system the files needed to make identical virtual machines on one or many host systems on a network.

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Conclusions I still believe that with a little more

time I can use Norton Ghost to image virtual machines just like you can with physical machines and I fully intend to keep working on it beyond EET499.

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Future Possibilities Future capstone projects

could include imaging a virtual machine with Norton Ghost or other imaging program to perform a mass deployment.

Email: chrishm07@yahoo.com