Servers

April 17, 2009  1:36 PM

Bricks or blades?

Posted by: Craig Hatmaker
blades, infrastructure, Servers, Virtualization

Bricks (standard rack-mount servers) are a known entity. You've been buying and deploying them forever. You are comfortable with bricks. Blades (blade servers) are cool. They're small. They look really neat in your rack. Your vendor really wants you to buy blades. The question is,...

November 6, 2008  12:57 PM

Making a P2V conversion: Tricks for systems with large storage

Posted by: Rick Vanover
network, Networking, P2V, Rick Vanover, Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Virtualization management, Virtualization strategies

Converting a system with a large amount of locally attached storage can be a challenging task given the time required to perform the conversion. Here area a few tricks I've found that can help ease the pain on these types of conversion tasks.

• Private network: Making a...

October 23, 2008  11:01 AM

The first 45 days of using the virtual machine expiration date

Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover, Servers, Virtualization management, Virtualization strategies

In prior posts, I mentioned that determining how the expiration of a virtual machine (VM) will be managed and...

September 29, 2008  10:44 AM

EsXpress: A good idea come ’round again

Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran, Linux and virtualization, Open source, Servers, Uncategorized, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Virtualization management, VMware, VMworld, VMworld 2008

I had the opportunity to spend a little time at the esXPress booth at VMworld 2008 this year, and I could kick myself. Hard. To go to the start of why ... a long time ago, back when my office primarily used VMware GSX3 for virtulization at the server level, I had a real need to do backups of the...

September 23, 2008  4:10 AM

Using blades as virtual hosts

Posted by: Eric Siebert
Blade servers, Servers, Virtualization, Virtualization platforms, Virtualization strategies, VMware

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