ESXi vs. ESX – warning, this is a rant!
I recently participated in a discussion thread on LinkedIn in the VMware Certified Professionals group that got to be a little lively. In this discussion, outside of the original poster’s question, a side discussion began on ESXi vs. ESX and all the trouble that it [...]
Tonight I decided to go on the magical journey of upgrading my ESX 3.5 environment to vSphere using the Host Update Utility. I’m usually a firm believer in ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!’ but this time I decided to take the plunge and see what happens.
A few months ago, I ran through the [...]
Here’s the scenario, I decided to try out Subversion as a source control repository on a Windows Server 2008 server, attached to a Win Server 2008 domain, with ISA Server forwarding HTTP traffic. After doing a little bit of research, I decided to give VisualSVN Server a try. If you don’t know it, it’s a [...]
I’ve been running multiple subnets in my lab, and been dealing with the pain of having to VPN into each separate subnet when needing to make a change, test something, or deploy something. It’s been a learning experience and I’ve configured both OpenVPN and ISA Server 2006 VPN’s and successfully bounced around the various networks [...]
Whenever Microsoft releases a new OS, I try to at least install it in a VM and poke around with it. With Windows 7 however, I jumped, both feet in and installed it on my laptop and desktop. The installation was quick and easy, on my desktop all the devices were recognized and on [...]
A few years ago, I wanted to try out a free network and system monitoring package so I decided to download and try to setup Nagios. Since I’m no Linux guru, though working with Linux has started to change lately, it took me quite a while to get Nagios setup and configured. After doing so, [...]
Bobby Shea has written a great blog entry on using your iPhone to RDP (remote desktop) into servers and workstations on your network using VPN, an iPhone, and an expensive but well worth it iPhone application called PocketCloud by WYSE (about $30.00 unless you catch it on sale).
This is an incredible solution to accessing resources. [...]
So tonight, I ran the VMware vCenter Server Upgrade from Virtual Center 2.x.
I got a warning from the installer shortly after it began saying that I have IIS installed and there may be conflicts. I pressed on since I know the default website on IIS is set for port 81 and is currently serving nothing, [...]
Just a few days ago, after checking out what my friend Bobby Shea had done with his blog, decided to create a new blog. More for the fun and personal stuff than this tech one. http://stuff.d3planet.com.
Anyway, I always enjoy playing with new technology, especially if something is plug-and-play, so I decided to download the Turnkey [...]
Dell’s 1900 series servers are a great entry level virtualization server. It’s the perfect hardware to get you started with ESX or ESXi, at an affordable price. Affordable price being a relative term of course, but you can configure a 1900 series server, tower case, for less than $3000 in most cases, and depending on [...]