Create local accounts for VMware ESXi via PowerCLI
Short and simple PowerCLI script to add local users to VMware ESXi hosts.
Configure syslog for VMware ESXi via PowerCLI
Very simple VMware PowerCLI script to update all hosts in a vCenter to accomplish centralized syslog configuration.
And the new storage is…
I won’t play coy and string you along. I will just expound on my reasons in my choice for our new storage then give you the answer you have waited for.
Benchmarking storage results, part 2
This report is where I describe the hardware and guest operating systems in a different format and include the output from bonnie++ and Postmark. I opted to skip the Iometer benchmarks because then this post would just be multiple screenshots or I would need to parse it all into graphs.
Benchmarking storage results, part 1
Does it perform within the parameters set (see below)? Can I measure objectively? What changed parameters caused differences in expected output? Are all features included or must I make a compromise? Is it easy to manage? Can I expect someone else to manage this? Does it fit with my long-term goals? Can it scale with my needs? Is there anybody out there?
Storage benchmarking hardware list
So here I am in my office at ipHouse finishing up the last runs of benchmarking reviewing my posts I have already done for Tegile’s Zebi and Tintri T540 appliances. I still need to finish one for Nexsan but won’t have time until later this weekend to complete it.
As I am getting closer to posting the actual results I wanted to share the storage and testing configurations now instead of including all of this in the results posting.
Searching for storage: Tintri
Here is the second installment of my series of posts dealing with storage that I am evaluating at ipHouse for our virtualization products.
I have been a busy boy the past couple of weeks.
Searching for storage: Tegile
Blog post about Tegile’s Zebi storage appliance, a storage vendor I learned about from a friend in the IT field working in education.
I’m very glad I followed up on the suggestion.
Oh sandbox, you need to grow
The buildup of our new sandbox for internal learning has run for a week and already we are running out of resources. Five old Dell PE1430 with 2 4-core processors but they max out at 8 GiB of RAM. That’s 40 GiB total for 7-8 people. This is a little tight. Digging through dead server storage(tm) I have found a […]