Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 provides a comprehensive solution for server monitoring. In a Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop deployment, Operations Manager is used to monitor the health of the physical host system running Virtual Server as well as of the individual VMs running on that host.
With Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop, instances of Windows Vista–based VMs execute on a server running Windows Server 2003 and Virtual Server 2005. RDP is the client access method used to deliver user desktops to either rich or thin client devices running the RDP client. Each VM consists of:
One or more virtual hard disks, which are .vhd files that emulate hard disks.
A .vmc file that stores the configuration of the VM environment.
A guest operating system, which is installed on the virtual hard disk.
Given that model, Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop can be deployed in one of two ways:
Static, in which a dedicated VM image (.vhd file) exists for each user.
Dynamic, in which a single “master” VM image supports multiple users.
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