Virtualization and the ISP (part 4.1)
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Oh sandbox, you need to grow
about 2 months ago - No comments
The buildup of our new sandbox for internal learning has run for a week and already we are running out of resources. Five old Dell PE1430 with 2 4-core processors but they max out at 8 GiB of RAM. That’s 40 GiB total for 7-8 people. This is a little tight. Digging through dead server More >
Example cost: Virtual Private Cloud (updated)
about 1 year ago - No comments
Back in September, 2009, I had written a post with a quick overview of what a private cloud (or infrastructure) looks like and some basic costs and information, including why it is a great product (I am biased). Since then, Dell has retired the PE2900III model server and items change, this is an update for More >
bool Virtual_systems; Virtual_systems=1;
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Ah, programming, something that most systems administrators can’t do to save their lives, beyond the simple scripts we write to help manage our sometimes obscure environments. The title of this post is a poke at programming (in general), and germane to the blog post I reference below. There is a huge difference between those that More >
Example cost: Virtual Private Cloud on VMware
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
In the last 6 months, I have helped multiple customers achieve their dream of a virtual machine environment built for them exclusively, but with abilities to control their virtual machine setup, configuration, turn up, tear down, etc. These dedicated infrastructure environments are in the ipHouse data center. This isn’t ‘cloud computing’ as many people think More >
Virtualization and you – general questions
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
In my own opinion and some googling around, I have found that there are some basic questions that you should ask yourself when you are looking at using virtual server (machine) services. I’ll update this list as I come up with new information or receive feedback valuable to most people. The questions are in More >
Prepping for VMware virtualization for customers
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
I chose Dell as my hardware platform, VMware for my host hypervisor, and I am starting with a 2 system ‘cluster’. (I use the word ‘cluster’ not because they are clustered in a way that most people think of things, but in that they will share SAN LUNs for their storage allowing migration from one More >
Virtualization and the ISP (part 4)
about 3 years ago - No comments
The fun is getting going – ordered up the 8 servers as listed in the configuration in my blog post from October 4th, 2008 on October 14th, 2008. This will give me 8 host systems and one spare on the shelf (I’ll be using it for test deployments and such as well). Ship date: October 16th, More >
Virtualization and the ISP (part 3.2)
about 3 years ago - No comments
I measured another system at the office today looking at usage on a 2950 with Energy Smart power supplies, and L series processors (50W each). Idle usage was 2.1A, and when I pushed the system as hard as I could to light up 4 cores the system went to 2.9A of power. This is .3A More >
Virtualization and the ISP (part 3.1)
about 3 years ago - No comments
Time for some power measurements! ESXi was the hypervisor involved in the tests. System installed, 4 virtuals powered on, but not doing anything: 2.2A @115V System installed, 4 virtuals being installed hitting the I/O system: 2.4A @115V System installed, 4 virtuals pushing 100% CPU each, no tuning: 2.6A @115V While the virtuals were pushing the high CPU More >
Virtualization and the ISP (part 3)
about 3 years ago - No comments
