Re: Deepfreeze on vm's?

[Brandon Payne <brandon.j.payne () SVCC EDU>]

I'd like to jumpstart my thread again now the vendor has been removed. If
anyone else has a similar scenario in production, please share your
experiences. Thanks!

-Brandon



On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Brandon Payne <payneb () svcc edu> wrote:

> Yes, I understand its as easy as deleting the problematic VM and a few
> minutes later the replica master starts provisioning a new VM; Getting it
> back up and running in a matter of minutes.
>
> However, Student/Faculty users will likely be Local Administrators
> (allowing the use of installing student book resource cd's, old legacy
> software that requires admin to run, etc.), therefore the use of Deepfreeze
> has helped tremendously. The idea of having Deepfreeze on the VM and having
> the VM reboot on logoff gives a calming feeling.
>
> --
> Brandon Payne
> Technical Support Specialist
> Information Services
> Sauk Valley Community College
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:14 PM, SCHALIP, MICHAEL <mschalip () cnm edu> wrote:
>
> > Agreed.......or, couldn't you just reprovision a new image on the fly?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> > SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Lococo
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 4:08 PM
> > To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> > Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Deepfreeze on vm's?
> >
> > On 12/06/2011 06:00 PM, Brandon Payne wrote:
> > > We are looking into VDI for all our computer labs. VMware View to be
> > > exact with WYSE P20 Zero Clients. Roughly about 300 or more vm's for
> > all the labs.
> > > From a virtual standpoint - do you see the need for Faronics
> > > Deepfreeze on all computer lab vm's? Currently we are using Deepfreeze
> > > on our desktops in all labs and has worked out great. For this
> > > situation, I'm not interested in the security implications of why
> > > Deepfreeze is bad, just if its recommended in a virtual environment.
> > >
> > > What are you doing in situations if a user profile gets hosed up with
> > > malware in this vm enviroment?
> >
> > Why wouldn't you use the native snapshotting facilities that VMWare
> > provides?  The main feature that deepfreeze delivers in the physical world
> > is snapshotting and rollback, and that's a feature that VMWare delivers out
> > of the box.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mike Lococo
> >
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