Description
At the moment I am looking for a change manager, who has got experience with virtualization projects.
Location: The Hague, the Netherlands
Duration:
While most office PCs are on the Group standard Operating Systems (OS) - Windows Vista and Windows 7, and, however, most PCs and Servers (lab workstations) used to control lab instruments, are on variety of non-standard hardware and OS. These non-GI lab Workstation OS ranges from MAC and different versions of Windows - NT/95/98/ME/W2K/W2K3/W2k8/XP/Vista/7, to different flavors of linux and unix. Likewise, lab hardware also has a wide diversity as well.
Additional complexity arises - some of these lab workstations are stand-alone, some are supported either locally or by third party vendors, while others such as current EZChrom 3.x running on Windows XP are no longer supported by vendors.
Due to the diversity of lab workstations, issues such as lack of periodic security patch and anti-virus updates, unprotected research data sharing, insecure communications protocols, and inconsistent and non-standard data backup have become IRM compliance problems.
To find flexible solutions that both satisfy researchers in labs - for them to continue operating the existing instruments, and meet IRM requirements, the Group architects recommended virtualizing lab workstations.
The PoC objective was to virtualize selective lab workstations to validate the architects recommendation. 17 hosts have been set up locally at selective labs and 28 lab workstations have been tested successfully.
The PoC has proved that lab Workstation virtualization works, locally.