Week 6 Posting - Virtual Machine Networks

When a virtual machine is needed, typically it will fall on the system administrator to create, manage and secure the virtual machine. In most virtualized environments there are sperate networks used for management, failover and client connections. The primary network is what connects the end user to the VM, this can be a remote desktop connection or a provided web interface login. The second network is known as the management network, this is what the hosted system will use to network access, this should be only visible to the system administrator or other trust networking professionals. The final network is the High Availability (HA) and the Distributed Resource Schedule (DRS), this is the network that will be used if the original hosting server goes offline it will seamlessly relocate the system to another hosting unit in the same pool of servers. The third network also provides a fast connection to a redundant storage drive that any of the VM servers can host file systems on. Keeping these three network separated will ensure that anything in the VM is limited to the current network.