Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Daily Archives: January 14, 2008
VMWare ESX v3.5 on Cheap PC Hardware
Posted by on January 14, 2008
As eric and some people here and here very helpfully pointed out last week the HP Compaq D530 desktop PC has hardware that is compatible with ESX 3.5′s new SATA drivers. I managed to get a 2.8GHz HT one from eBay with 4Gb RAM and a 500Gb SATA disk for approx £315 GBP delivered, [...]
VMWare Stage Manager
Posted by on January 14, 2008
I like this idea of this. it sounds like a product for automating a lot of what I blogged about in my Build a better test lab series (much delayed in publishing… must find some time to post further!). We had a lot of trouble with the out of the box p2v tools; would [...]
