After using the Infrastructure for some time, I have a list of features I want to see in the next VIC: 1) Live cloning or backup: I know that VMware have consolidated backup to provide this function, but it requires either another backup program acting as a frontend or a number of command line commands. …
Category Archive: VMware
VMware ESX, ESXi, VirtualCenter, Server, Infrastructure
Jul
26
2008
Jul
26
2008
ESX and the iSCSI IQN
Being both a Norwegian, and a newbie when it comes to iSCSI and ESX(i), it shoudn’t come as a surprise that I had my fair share of problems getting iSCSI on ESX to work. As for those of you who doesn’t know Norwegians, we are pretty much known for completely ignoring every piece of documentation …
Jul
23
2008
Followup on ESXi
As reported in the previous post, ESXi will be avaiable for free on July 28th. As this is great news for all the virtualization geeks and sysadmins out there, I would like to share some of my experiences with ESXi. First of all, installation is a piece of cake: Boot with the CD (I haven’t …
Jul
23
2008
VMware ESXi for free
According to InformationWeek, VMware ESXi will be available for free from July 28th. Previously priced at $495, the battle with Microsoft Hyper-V has made VMware to release the ESXi as a free download. As a fan of VMware, I am happy to say that this is a bold move. ESXi is an enterprise virtualization solution …
Jul
17
2008
Xen inside VMware ESX…
Well, no success so far. As long as I stay away from installing VMware Tools I have networking, but as soon as I install the enhanced vmxnet driver the network connection is lost. I get the broadcast traffic on my network, but it does get any replies when I try DHCP. And yes, I have …
Jul
05
2008
VMotion
One of the goals for this project was to try out the fancy thing that VMware calls VMotion. Basicly it is a system where you can move virtual machines around between physical hosts without having to power them down. By enabling VMotion you create an opportunity for virtualized load balancing in virtual data centers which …
Jul
05
2008
Connecting the pieces…
After installing ESXi to the PE R200 servers and doing some initial testing it was time to move the servers to their new home. We have a primitive server room here at our hall of residence which I am happily abusing. I say primitive since there are no rack cabinets installed and the cooling is …
Jul
03
2008
VMware Server 2.0 RC1 is out
The first release candidate (RC1) for VMware Server is out. VMware Server is VMware’s free virtualization product. It requires either Windows or Linux as the operating system and installs itself as an application/daemon/service which you can run on your private machine. VMware Server 1.0 was more or less the GSX server revamped and released to …
Jul
01
2008
Dell PowerEdge R200
My Dell PowerEdge R200 servers arrived yesterday. New hardware is always fun and two servers is twice the funof just one! The PE R200′s are quite simple. Built in an 1U case, Dell have fitted the servers with two disk drives, a single CPU (in my case, a Xeon X3320, Quad Core 2.5GHz with 2x3MB …
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