vCloud Director – the VMware solution to building on-demand infrastructure for the enterprise and cloud computing…works. But there are some trials you must encounter and complete before things work smoothly. TL;DR: I failed at first but found the problem with the issue being firewall services blocking inter-cell communications. This post is about the log entry and how it isn’t very […]
This is just a rant and should never be read.
It is time to add space to our VMware cluster for storage of VMs for our customers. We started initially using Compellent SAN storage. Worked well, had a lot of space, but the performance was not what I was looking for (it is all SATA based), using F/C is far more complicated than we need for this project, and just […]
Back in September, 2009, I had written a post with a quick overview of what a private cloud (or infrastructure) looks like and some basic costs and information, including why it is a great product (I am biased). Since then, Dell has retired the PE2900III model server and items change, this is an update for the basic configuration. Reminder graphic: […]
Been a long week and I had to deal with some red tape internally (of my own creation!), but finally have some working shell service to sell to people who want it. I had posted last week about the issue(s) of shell services and decided that I would do the work to put this kind of service together as I […]
The crowd cheers! Though that might just be me :) I am very excited for this update and I hope that it goes as smoothly as other updates have gone. I have already updated 2 non-production systems (both ESX) and I am in the process of updating some non-production ESXi servers. One of the items I need to schedule is the […]
pics of my new shiny Mac Pro! Decided it was time for an upgrade as running 3-4 VMs at once was getting to be a little … slow at times. And having VMs eating processor and RAM while playing World of Warcraft? Â For shame! Â Work and play at the same time causes sumthin’ sumthin’… New system has 12GB RAM and […]
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 […]