Windows Server 2012 - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - Part-2

3.1   Installation & Configuration of Hyper-v role & network.

Now proceed with installing Hyper-v Roles & then create 2 networks in hyper-v one for the external network & other one for the internal network.

After the network creation is complete it will look something like this:-

Last network is the internal network created in hyper-v you doesn’t need this network.

3.1   Creating Template machines.

Now we will be creating the VM machines in Hyper-v which will be used as template machine for later use.

Template machines are the master image of windows 7 or windows 8 which is used in the company.

After the proper image engineering of the image we can use the image for creating the template machine.

Or we can just use the simple ISO and create these template machines.

I am using ISO files of Windows 8 & Windows 7 to create these machines.

Just follow the Hyper-v new machine creation process & create these machines. Take care that both the network are present in the hyper-v machines.

The Highlighted machines were created as template machines:-

Both networks should be there in the settings of these machines.

Now, after the network configuration is done we need to sysprep the machines in case of windows8 machines we can directly start with the sysprep process & in terms of Windows 7 machines we need to install hyper-v integration drivers first. The Hyper-v Integration drivers present in the hyper-v machines are updated. These updated drivers are present in Windows 8 machines but they are not present in Windows 7 machines.

For the Windows 8 machines created as template:-

Go to C:\Windows\System32\sysprep

And run sysprep.

Select the following option & click OK:-

This will start the sysprep process. Once the process is completed the machine will shut down.

For Windows 7 machines created as template:-

Logon to the machine.

Go to Action & select “Insert Integration Services Setup Disk”.

This will start the installation of Hyper-v integration pack on the windows 7 machines.

After the installation is complete the machine will restart.

After the restart we need to sysprep the machine.

Go to C:\Windows\System32\sysprep

Run Sysprep & check Generalize, select “Shutdown” form the drop down option.

This will start the sysprep process. Once the process is completed the machine will shut down.

We have created Windows 8 & Windows 7 template machine.

Note – Each RDS collection use one machine as template so we need to create separate machine for each collection.