Archive for the ‘Virtualisation’ Category
Virtualisation: Home Lab Update
Home lab storage
I’ve just about got my home lab fully organised; here’s a quick summary of what I have in place.
Storage
I’ve four main storage devices, DroboPro, Iomega ix4-200D (two) and an EMC CLARiiON CX-700. This gives me NAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity options...
March 9th, 2010 | Featured, Virtualisation | Read More
Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am. Here’s what...
January 20th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More
Virtualisation: How To – Accessing DroboPro Dashboard With iSCSI
In my first review of the DroboPro, I was somewhat disappointed that I couldn’t access the ‘Pro from the Drobo Dashboard when the device is serving out iSCSI LUNs across the IP connection. This restriction is a serious flaw, as it requires taking the DroboPro down and off the network in...
January 6th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More
Enterprise Computing: The Wide Striping Debate
I’ve read with interest this week the posts on wide striping and the consequent expansion to thin provisioning. Here are some of the highlights:
First there’s Martin Glasborow’s post, which discusses whether wide striping and thin provisioning should be chargeable items. I’d...
July 12th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More
Enterprise Computing: VMware Announce vSphere 4
In case you haven’t noticed, the next chapter in the story of the unstoppable juggernaut that is VMware is here. It’s called VMware vSphere 4 (dropping the Virtual Infrastructure moniker) but is still essentially the same as the previous VMware with incremental improvements. The full...
April 21st, 2009 | Virtualisation | Read More

