Archive for the ‘Virtualization’ Category

HyperV Stuff

September 16th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

Just as I’ve finished consolidating all my Physical machines to HyperV guests Microsoft have announced Windows HyperV Server which is a free download.
With the release of the HyperV Linux Componants I’m going to start moving some workloads away from my old ESX 2.5 servers and see if HyperV Synthetic devices work as well as [...]

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Benefits of Virtualisation For Training

February 24th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

Working in a Data Center brings with it various challenges that you wouldn’t normally find in most other jobs; we come across demanding solutions, ingenious ‘hacks‘, impressive software and outright weird errors.
Once we’ve crossed a particular hurdle then we need to go about disseminating this new found information to the other SysAdmins.
So far [...]

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Leveraging Virtualisation To Fight Spam

December 23rd, 2007 by Gareth Llewellyn

A few weeks ago I ‘inherited’ a frontend anti-spam solution that was getting crushed under the weight of the Christmas run-up. Emails were taking up to a week to arrive at the back-end system and a lot of spam was getting through too.
The solution consisted of two machines each with Dual Core 2.13Ghz Intel’s, 2Gb [...]

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VMWare Virtual Center Errors

September 4th, 2007 by Gareth Llewellyn

Yesterday I had a nasty case of Y-splitter failure (in future I’m just going to upgrade the PSU rather than go though this again) which caused all four of the 320Gb disks of a RAID5 array to suddenly disappear.
Windows didn’t like that and hung, VMware Virtual Center disliked it even more. Once I recovered the [...]

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