Cisco UCS Platform Kool-Aid (Careful When Drinking)
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words! I don’t dislike the Cisco UCS Platform, I just don’t feel good about letting a network hardware vendor take over the server infrastructure …
Virtualization, Hardware & Software Guides
Tag: Hardware
Blades vs Rack Servers For vSphere
Blades Are Sexy! Are you trying to decide whether to use blade and chassis instead of rack mounted servers for virtualization? Here are the Pros and Cons of Blades vs …
Squeezing Virtual Machines Out of CPU Cores
Are you trying to squeeze every CPU cycle out of your dual, quad, or hex core processors for making more VMs per core? Unfortunately for those who like to overclock …
Capacity Planning and Monitoring for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
If you have a growing Virtual Infrastructure, like most – it has outgrown the monitoring tools integrated into VirtualCenter. VC has very limited capability to help resource managers and NOCs …
ESX iSCSI Connection to NetApp
When it comes to connecting ESX Server to NetApp storage, there are several ways: IP and Fiber, iSCSI and NFS. If your organization can afford FC, then you have a …
Post P2V Guide: Step by Step Removing Ghost 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 …