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 […]
In my own opinion and some googling around, I have found that there are some basic questions that you should ask yourself when you are looking at using virtual server (machine) services. I’ll update this list as I come up with new information or receive feedback valuable to most people. The questions are in no particular order after question […]
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 […]
First, I had a problem with Parallels during an upgrade on my laptop – I was forced to reactivate Windows after the virtual conversion was completed. Â This is quite frustrating as one of the great points of virtualization of a system is that the underlying hardware isn’t changing. Â I will try to not let this hamper my comments. Virtual hardware […]
Today I finished an article on my experience with Parallels (4.0) vs VMware Fusion (2.0.1) using my day to day applications + Outlook 2007. You can find this article on my Geek and I blog.
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 […]
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! […]
I measured another system at the office today looking at usage on a 2950 with Energy Smart power supplies, and L series processors (50W each). Idle usage was 2.1A, and when I pushed the system as hard as I could to light up 4 cores the system went to 2.9A of power. This is .3A higher than the PE2900 system […]