System and Method for Virtualized Shared Use Environment with Dynamic IP Address Injection

A system for use by multiple operators using a variety of different company software over the same hardware;

• hardware locations are stored in a database to pair with the company software;
• the hardware is controlled by time phased virtualized machine sessions;
• active virtualized machine sessions receive a dynamic IP address injected into its virtual machine based on the location of the edge computing device and the company selecting its software;
• a session ID is randomly generated to aid the tracking of the virtual machines;
• tracking virtual machine sessions both primary and secondary;
• tracking IP addressing based on company's addressing standards;
• spawning virtual machine sessions based on time-of-day volume requirements;
• spawning virtual machine sessions based on last instance of company/location combination used and time-of-day volume requirements;
• company accessing its corporate VLAN via the server's network card interface (NIC) backplane and the IP address injected into the virtual machine;
• error correction and recover from a primary virtual machine failure;
• error correction and recovery from a secondary virtual machine failure;
• virtual machine returned to pool upon termination of session by operator;
• hardware replacements necessitate the need to record the machine address code (MAC address) within the database;
• software updates are made by the company on an as needed basis.