Virtualization Archives - Page 13 of 15

Wyse P20 Review with VMware View 4.6

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Justin Paul | 7 Comments

I must say that I am very bias about this terminal, I love this thing. The first time I worked with this terminal was at VMWorld 2010, they were the terminal that VMware was using for their lab environment. Then…

HP t5745 ThinPro Terminal Review

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

While at the office today I saw a new HP box sitting on the bench beside of mine and after taking a look at the label I found that it was a t5745 terminal with the HP ThinPro OS. I…

Installing ESXi from USB stick

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Lately, more and more servers are shipping without CD or DVD drives, and if you are like me, you don’t want to carry a USB CD/DVD drive with you. Luckily there is a way to create a USB stick (thumb…

Don’t buy new PC’s, Virtualize them!

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Lately, I have been focusing on VMware View and virtual desktops, mostly on the setup of View and getting desktop templates tweaked and such, but then the sales side of me took over. While I openly admit that I personally…

How much bandwidth for offsite VM replication?

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

One of the hardest parts of planning a virtualization project for a customer is telling them how much bandwidth they are going to need in order to replicate their data from one site to another. Not only is every case…

ESXi backup and restore with vMA

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

The other day I was working on a project where I was migrating HP drives from internal storage, into a P2000 G3 SAS SAN. ( which worked amazingly btw) The catch was that besides being a local datastore they also…

The Missing Manual Part 2: When Snapshots Go Wrong

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

One thing you are probably going to run into if you have virtualized your servers and are using a snapshot based based backup product are orphaned snapshots. I don’t think that is an official term, but it’s the one I’m…

Infrastructure Upgrades

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

For the better part of 3 years I have hosted several mustang forums and other stuff on a pair of Dell 2650 servers. At first, there was just local storage inside of the two servers, and then I moved to…

Why RDIMM/UDIMM memory matters

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Justin Paul | 17 Comments

If your looking at different servers to buy for your next virtualization project make sure you check the memory that they come with. New servers utilize DDR3 RAM which comes in several different flavors, there are registered or unbuffered, and…

Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Justin Paul | 75 Comments

Because there is no document published on how to setup and run VMware off of a P2000 I have put one together after reviewing the P2000 FC/iSCSI combo unit that I lent by HP. I have also created a PDF…