How to Size Memory for VMware Servers
One of the things you have to do when building out your VMware cluster is size the amount of memory (RAM) you need. From what I have seen most people assume that by adding up the total amount of RAM…
Category: Network Design
Recipe for SMB Cluster’s Version 2.0
I’ve done several posts on how to design a cost-effective SMB cluster, but recently with the discovery of the HP P2000 G3 SAS SAN it has gotten MUCH more cost effective. While the HP SAS SAN is not entirely new,…
HP P2000/MSA G3: A First look for SMB’s
Related Articles include: HP P2000 (MSA2000i) Review and Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000 A while back I wrote a review of the HP P2000 G2 (aka MSA2000 G2) and it has generated a decent amount of page views, and…
Recipe for SMB Clusters
Ingredients: 1 – VMware Software Package 1 or 2 – Gigabit Network Switch 2 or 3 – 64-bit Capable Server 1 – SAN Directions: Load servers with VMware ESXi, configure vswitches Configure SAN, add SAN to ESXi servers and format…
LRITA Presentation Slides
I was asked to post my presentation from tonight’s Lima Regional IT Alliance meeting. It was a basic (not completely organized) presentation on virtualization project planning and some tips for keeping your VMware implementation running smoothly. SMSproTech – Virtualization Presentation…
SAN Thick or Thin provisioning?
The company that I work for has decided to get all of the virtualization system engineers together in order to discuss best practices and to help standardize how we setup customer systems. This week was the first week and we…
vSphere Design Workshop Day 3 Takeaway
Quotes of the day: “After I learned PowerShell I knew I could stop being a Console Hugger and transition to ESXi” “Snapshots are a back out process, NOT a backup process” Some interesting things learned from today include: If applications…
vSphere Design Workshop Day 2 Takeaway
Quote of the day: “The 3 most common lies: I Love you, The check is in the mail, and that will be fixed in the next revision” Today started out with us talking about HA Slot Size, by default this…
vSphere Design Workshop Day 1 Takeaway
My day started off with a nice walk from the hotel to the Microtek facility… about 1.2 miles, which is probably more than I have walked at any single stretch in about 1.2 years, but it was worth it. First…
vSphere Solution Design (Pt1. Before Course)
Next week I will be attending a VMware vSphere Design Course in Chicago and thought it would be interesting to write an article on designing out a virtualization solution before, and then do a follow up post on what I…