== ipepdvsrv1 ==

Hardware
 * [http://www.apple.com/xserve/ Apple Xserve] server
 * Intel Xeon CPU E5462 2.8GHZ (8 cores total), 16 GB system memory
 * 3 x 1TB hard drives: First one is hosting operating system, two overs are organized in mirroring RAID and used to store virtual machines and PDV data. The raid is mounted under ''/Volumes/PDVData'' path.

Sofware:
 * [http://www.apple.com/macosx/ MacOS X 10.5.4 (Leopard) Server] operating system. VNC and SSH servers are providing remote administration capabilities.
 * [http://www.parallels.com/products/server/mac/ Parallels Server for Mac] Virtualization Solution. 
 * The management of virtual machines is possible using Parallels Management Console. The latest Linux, Windows and OSX versions could be downloaded for free from [http://www.parallels.com/download/server/ here]. The local copies are available [http://ipepdvsrv1.ka.fzk.de/software/Collections/Parallels/console/ here].

Documentation:
 * [wiki:VirtualDesktops Configuring Virtual Linux/Windows/OSX Desktops]