As said earlier, our server room is not equiped with the latest and most powerful cooling equipment available. As it is summer in Norway, the temperature in the room could get above 35C. This room is not optimal, but it is the best solution available to me. So, in order to track the temperature changes …
Monthly Archive: July 2008
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2008
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 …
Jul
01
2008
The iSCSI setup
To really unlock the potential in VMWware Infrastructure you need some kind of network storage. The alternatives are few and are mostly very expensive. Fibre Channel has been the only alternative for quite some time, but it is so expensive that only very large organizations could afford it. It demands both dedicated host adapters (HBA), …
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