31 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

10 Things I Remember About 2011 – Cloud, vCoud Director, AWS Outage, Virtual Desktop-VDI, ESXi 5, Thin Storage and More…

10 Things I Remember About 2011- Cloud, vCoud Director,  AWS Outage, Virtual Desktop-VDI, ESXi  5, Thin Storage and More… A lot more than 10 things happened in 2011, but here are the 10 things I remember looking back on this New Years-Eve Day: 1. Cloud became more than a buzz-word. 2. VMware’s vCloud Director was [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Microsoft Hyper-V Debutes for $28 per License

The long awaited Microsoft Virtual Server dubbed Hyper-V has now been released. At $28 a license, verses $7, 000 – $14,00 for VMware ESX, it should be well received with the economy possibly suffering from a recession. Should you install Hyper-V instead of VMware VI? Let’s see, one of the many purposes of virtualization is [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Squeezing Virtual Machines out CPU Cores

 Are you trying to squeeze every CPU cycle out of your dual or quad core processors? Unfortunately for those who like to over-clock CPUs for gaming, over utilizing CPU doesn’t quite work the same on virtual hosts (ESX or Hyper-V). From my experience, I know you can get anywhere from 8 – 10 vCPUs per [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 1 Comment

P2V – Step by Step Removing Physical Hardware

It’s been a while since I had to P2V a Windows server but recently I found myself on a project doing P2Vs of business critical servers, again. FYI: The new version of VMware VM Converter works great for converting a physical Windows and Lunux server into a virtual server. Once the conversion is completed, the [...]

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