In the last 6 months, I have helped multiple customers achieve their dream of a virtual machine environment built for them exclusively, but with abilities to control their virtual machine setup, configuration, turn up, tear down, etc. These dedicated infrastructure environments are in the ipHouse data center. This isn’t ‘cloud computing’ as many people think of it (thanks to Amazon […]
Whew! And about perfect timing for me. I was helping a friend understand that he could not operate ESXi 4.0 on his old server because of the requirement for a 64bit CPU environment. Today, VMware released this blog post touting the updates and a link to their actual hardware compatibility list, which covers vSphere 4.0 ESX and ESXi, and I bet it […]
Virtualization, one of the buzzwords flying around the Internet today, is a method of running separate servers (guests) with separate operating systems on shared physical hardware (the host). I wrote a quick summary back in February, 2009 that should help give some context. Here at ipHouse, we have chosen to use VMware for our virtualization products. We chose VMware because […]
Oooh, the virtualization wars are reaching a new level, and with this new video from Microsoft we have reached a new level of marketing misdirection with some future capabilities included. The video focuses on 10 items that VMware says they have over Hyper-V…that are being refuted by the marketing and tech guy in the video. Right away the viewer is […]
Why virtualize? Better yet, why use virtualized server services for your business? I’ll try to answer that question in this blog post, though from a service provider point of view, but I’ll try to remove my bias where feasible. Summary: For many business needs, a virtualized server on a hosting providers infrastucture is very cost effective, very secure, and highly […]
I chose Dell as my hardware platform, VMware for my host hypervisor, and I am starting with a 2 system ‘cluster’. (I use the word ‘cluster’ not because they are clustered in a way that most people think of things, but in that they will share SAN LUNs for their storage allowing migration from one server to another.) Last week […]
I haven’t posted recently as I have been busy with other things. So far, I have migrated 14 physical servers onto the new platform and have images started (and some ready) for migration of another 6 servers in the next 4 days. Initial savings realized so far is approximately 12A of 110V power. I will post more when I get […]
As promised, a picture: Isn’t it beautiful?
The fun is getting going – ordered up the 8 servers as listed in the configuration in my blog post from October 4th, 2008 on October 14th, 2008. This will give me 8 host systems and one spare on the shelf (I’ll be using it for test deployments and such as well). Ship date: October 16th, 2008. Weight: 862lb Due date: Today! […]