Yesterday one of my former co-workers sent me an IM asking for help with VMware on a PowerEdge 1950. He had Googled for the problem and found my blog. I suppose I may be an “expert” at VMware on the PowerEdge 1950.
Anyway, he found that when he powered on a 64 bit guest, [...]
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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, [...]
As promised, this is the kickstart that I’m using for my Dell PowerEdge 1950’s. Setting up and configuring kickstart is beyond the scope of this article (but may be covered in a later one). You will probably want to tweak the partitioning setup to suit your own taste. We’re ordering our servers with an 80GB [...]
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 [...]