Looks like Christmas is coming a little but early this year in the RighteousHack household. I just ordered a new netbook for my significant other. After much research and being thoroughly disappointed by Dell’s “new” offerings, we decided to look at HP. From the looks of things that I found on the HP Mini 311 … Read more
When working with virtual machines, it is often advantageous to over allocate and under utilize resources. When it comes to virtual hard disks, this is even more common place. On low use or low demand servers, I always use thin provisioning. This saves disk space by only using physical disk space when the guest actually … Read more
Recently, I converted a decently spec’d terminal server into an ESXi server after doing a P2V on the TS. After that, it was time to play. I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 9.04 server and then installed FOG. If you don’t know what FOG is, you may want to read FOG’s overview here. Once … Read more
Drove up to Tampa today to attend my first VMUG (VMware User Group) meet-up. The meeting was held at Southwest Florida Water Management District’s Tampa location and was really good. Representatives from SWFLWMD, VMware, EMC, Data Domain, Veeam!, and Symantec were present. The presentations were kicked off by the Senior System Administrator of SWFLWMD which … Read more
Virtualization Lab: Part 2 – Concepts and Terminology Welcome to part two of my Virtualization Lab series. If you haven’t read part one, I would recommend reading it first. In this post I want to go over the concepts and terms that are used so frequently. Understanding the gist of virtualization will help lay a … Read more
Virtualization Lab: Part 1 – The Basics Many people are wondering what virtualization is really all about, and for good reason. In this multi-part series, I will take the virtualization novice from the ground up to a working lab/light production system. I’ll start with a bit of a rant: It seems that people on the … Read more
We recently purchased Kaseya and needed a better server to put it on. After deciding to setup Kaseya as a VM on a ESX host and a little capacity planning, I determined that a new server would be needed. After getting the corporate overlords to approve, I ordered up a new Dell PowerEdge R610 with … Read more
After getting my Dell PowerEdge loaded up with ESXi 3.5, I decided to try out one of the Ubuntu JEOS loads from the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace. After unzipping the 7zip file I was left with the normal VMWare file types such as .vmx and .vmdk, but ESXi only gives me the option to bring … Read more