For a myriad of reasons, I have been looking at alternatives to VMware ESXi for a few months. Virtualizing a few machines here and there has proven educational. Learning the ropes of working with qemu/kvm, libvirt, and virsh has been challenging at times, but overall a pleasure to work with. Working with kvm is great … Read more
I’ve been meaning to put some of my thoughts on the HP MicroServer N40L for quite some time and just haven’t made the time to do it, so here goes. Long ago I was searching for a reason to purchase and play with HP’s MicroServers and got my chance when a client asked for an … Read more
Found this great article and thought I would share it with RH readers: Original text from http://blog.scottlowe.org/ In an earlier article about VMware ESX, NIC teaming, and VLAN trunking, I described what the configuration should look like if one were using these features with Cisco switch hardware. It’s been a quite popular post, one I … Read more
I have come across a few useful KB articles from VMware recently and thought I would stick them here for future reference. Installing ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1 best practices If you are planning to or have recently deployed vCenter Server 4.1 or ESX(i) 4.1, this KB article from VMware may be of some … Read more
Attended my second VMware User Group Meeting (VMUG) today. The first meeting that I attended was held at the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s office a couple of month back. Today’s meeting was sponsored by Tech Data and held at their Clearwater, FL headquarters. First up was VMware which gave a presentation of upcoming features … Read more
See the following link for a more detailed understanding of ESXi 4.0 log directories and handling VMware ESXi 4 Log Files
We can all agree that virtualization has numerous benefits. One of the obvious benefits is that virtualization makes systems hardware agnostic. This is one of my favorite features of going virtual. I am responsible for the network operations of many businesses and being able to forget about hardware compatibilities on the OS level is a … Read more
Woke up nice and early this morning in lovely Tampa, FL for the VMware View Launch Tour. I have been playing around with various virtual technologies for quite awhile now. What I haven’t used at all is any form of VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. In my ever evolving quest to learn all that I … Read more