WSUS on a VM Eric B. 6/25/2007 7:21:00 PM Can WSUS 3.0 be installed on a Virtual Machine? Are there any known side effects for doing this? If I do this how would I export the data from my WSUS 2.0 server onto this new 3.0 sevrer? Thank you.

Re: WSUS on a VM "Winfried Sonntag [MVP]" <Winfried.Sonntag[ at ]gmx.de> 6/25/2007 8:21:41 PM Eric B. schrieb: [Quoted Text] > Can WSUS 3.0 be installed on a Virtual Machine? Are there any known side > effects for doing this? Yes. Not for me. > If I do this how would I export the data from my WSUS 2.0 server onto this > new 3.0 sevrer? Lawrende wrote some options here: Message-ID: <OutKRYItHHA.1728[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> Winfried -- http://www.microsoft.com/germany/windowsserver2003/technologien/updateservices/default.mspx http://www.wsuswiki.com/Home

Re: WSUS on a VM "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 6/26/2007 2:38:34 AM "Eric B." <EricB[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:59DF4269-6366-47D1-92F5-B6F5E591C6C4[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Can WSUS 3.0 be installed on a Virtual Machine? Absolutely. > Are there any known side effects for doing this? Nope. I've installed dozens of WSUS servers (v2 and v3) in VMs for the purpose of testing. However.... BIG caution... I would *not* install a WSUS server in a VM where there was any intention of maintaining a local content store. Or, put another way, only use VMs for WSUS servers that will not maintain a local content store. In addition, ideally, the VM would be IIS/front-end only, and the database would be on a physical back-end database server. I'd also only suggest doing it in scenarios expecting a very light client load. Managing VPN-based clients is an excellent scenario for this type of deployment, where the VPN-based clients actually get content directly from microsoft.com, not from the WSUS server. Testing and training are the other two scenarios well suited for VM use. > If I do this how would I export the data from my WSUS 2.0 server onto this > new 3.0 sevrer? Exactly the same as you would if the WSUS 3.0 server were a physical box! -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....

Re: WSUS on a VM "Winfried Sonntag [MVP]" <Winfried.Sonntag[ at ]gmx.de> 6/26/2007 6:47:15 AM Winfried Sonntag [MVP] schrieb: [Quoted Text] > Lawrende wrote some options here: Message-ID: > <OutKRYItHHA.1728[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> Ups, sorry, it was *Lawrence*. ;) Winfried -- http://www.microsoft.com/germany/windowsserver2003/technologien/updateservices/default.mspx http://www.wsuswiki.com/Home

Re: WSUS on a VM Eric B. 6/26/2007 8:29:00 PM Thank you Lawrence. What are the steps for doing an upgrade from 2.0 to 3.0? Are there any gotchas to look out for? "Lawrence Garvin (MVP)" wrote: [Quoted Text] > "Eric B." <EricB[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:59DF4269-6366-47D1-92F5-B6F5E591C6C4[ at ]microsoft.com... > > Can WSUS 3.0 be installed on a Virtual Machine? > > Absolutely. > > > Are there any known side effects for doing this? > > Nope. I've installed dozens of WSUS servers (v2 and v3) in VMs for the > purpose of testing. > > However.... BIG caution... I would *not* install a WSUS server in a VM where > there was any intention of maintaining a local content store. Or, put > another way, only use VMs for WSUS servers that will not maintain a local > content store. In addition, ideally, the VM would be IIS/front-end only, and > the database would be on a physical back-end database server. > > I'd also only suggest doing it in scenarios expecting a very light client > load. Managing VPN-based clients is an excellent scenario for this type of > deployment, where the VPN-based clients actually get content directly from > microsoft.com, not from the WSUS server. > > Testing and training are the other two scenarios well suited for VM use. > > > > If I do this how would I export the data from my WSUS 2.0 server onto this > > new 3.0 sevrer? > > Exactly the same as you would if the WSUS 3.0 server were a physical box! > > > -- > Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP > Independent WSUS Evangelist > MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) > https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E > > Everything you need for WSUS is at > http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx > > And, almost everything else is at > http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com > ..... > > >

Re: WSUS on a VM "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 6/27/2007 12:57:25 AM "Eric B." <EricB[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:01436804-80C3-4042-ACE6-68B655477D17[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Thank you Lawrence. > > What are the steps for doing an upgrade from 2.0 to 3.0? [a] Read the documentation. [b] Download the WSUS3Setupx86.exe installer. [c] Run the WSUS3Setupx86.exe installer on your WSUS 2.0 server, and follow the instructions on the screen. It's that easy! :-) -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....

Re: WSUS on a VM Andy Smith <smithers[ at ]altavista.net> 6/27/2007 12:36:27 PM On 25 Jun, 20:21, Eric B. <E...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Can WSUS 3.0 be installed on a Virtual Machine? Are there any known side > effects for doing this? > > If I do this how would I export the data from my WSUS 2.0 server onto this > new 3.0 sevrer? > > Thank you. Yes, we have a 3.0 server running on our test VMWare ESX environment, it works fine and am using this as the initial pilot environment for new security updates. If you are running VMWare, you can use their VMWare Converter tool to migrate the entire physical 2.0 server into a VM. The only problem I had in doing this was that I had initially renamed the server's computer name to reflect our test domain naming convention, and the WSUS 3.0 upgrade would not play ball at all because the server name in the SUSDB no longer matched the Windows server name. However, after renaming back to the original name (in a workgroup at that stage) the upgrade completed successfully. You would need to give the WSUSContent partition an appropriate amount of disk space in the VM in order to avoid any out of space issues (not a problem for us as the test ESX cluster is attached to our SAN). You would definately want to not have updates in all languages downloaded if at all possible! In our case, I went from a 50GB D: partition on the production 2.0 server (with 13GB of updates downloaded) to a 25GB D: partition on the VM.