I made a new personal record today. 24 new VMWare virtual machines made in one day.
21 agents, 3 managers. There’s 7 new Windows nodes to build as well. I also have to set up all of the clustering goodness on the nodes.
This puts us closer to filling QA’s request of 54 new servers (Linux, Windows, [...]
It seems like many people come to this blog from Google searches about VMWare, CentOS, and OpenFiler. I figured it might be good to talk about my VMWare Server deployment at work, since it’s something that I am fairly proud of.
I have fifteen Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers. They’re 1U each, with dual quad-core Intel Xeon [...]
I haven’t written a tech blog post in a while, but I’ve been working on an interesting, albeit frustrating, problem over the last few days.
At work I have 12 Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers, each with dual quad core Xeons (ranging from 1.8ghz to 2.3ghz), 16GB of RAM, and 138GB SAS drives. They’re running VMWare Server [...]
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We got a Dell PowerEdge 2900 in with the intention of making it a big ass file server. The basic specs on it are:
Quad Core Xeon 1.6 (Dell was running a special, free upgrade to the quad core from the dual core)
2GB RAM - PC2 5300, 4 x 512mb
8 500gb 7200 RPM SATA drives
Dell PERC [...]