Dear all,
We would like to setup a VDI solution but have a couple of questions, is there any can guide me to a correct way?
We are an educational institute and in our department there are 2 networks, one is public network 147.8.x.x, and the other is a private network 172.16.x.x, the private network serves our student laboratories computers.
We have 2 AD servers running on 147.8.x.x network, and we have setup 3 additional servers running the RDWeb Access, Connection Broker and Virtualization Host services on the same network. On the server with Virtualization Host services, we will configure
additional NIC for a private network like 172.16.x.x, which we would like to serve the Hyper-V guests on the same server, which we emulate the situation like our student laboratories computers.
We have an existing UNIX-based VPN server, and DHCP server running to allocate IP addresses to computers. We have searched some information on the Internet and found that some users may install a Windows-based DHCP server on AD to allocate IP addresses
for its Hyper-V guests and install a RDS Gateway to either the RDWeb Access or Connection Broker server for Hyper-V Guest access between different networks. But another solution is to install the DirectAccess RAS/Routing and Remote Access and enable
the NAT routing. May we know on our environment which solution should we choose? We expect the student will connect through the existing VPN server and then connect our 172.16.x.x's Hyper-V guests, and to connect the Hyper-V guests from our existing
student laboratories computers(172.16.x.x).
We would like to know which of the above solution or additional components would better be applied to our case. Since we already have our own DHCP server running on UNIX side, we may consider to continue using it to allocate DHCP private IPs to Hyper-V
guests, if possible. For the part of Virtual switch, we still not familiar with it. In case we need to setup a Windows-based DHCP server side the 172.16.x.x network, how can we control the DHCP broadcast to go to the Hyper-V guests only and how
to avoid the Windows-based DHCP to allocate IP address to computers out of the Hyper-V guest?
Regards,
Patrick