Ben Ruset on August 28th, 2008

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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Ben Ruset on March 18th, 2008

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, [...]

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Ben Ruset on March 17th, 2008

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 [...]

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Ben Ruset on January 16th, 2008

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 [...]

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