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Category Archives: ESXi
With the move to ESXi is NFS becoming more useful than VMFS?
Posted by on March 2, 2010
Now that VMware are moving away from ESX classic (with service console) to the ESXi model I have experienced a couple of issues recently that got me wondering if NFS will be a more appropriate model for VM storage going forward. in recent versions of ESX (3.5 and 4) NFS has moved away from [...]
8 Node ESXi Cluster running 60 Virtual Machines – all Running from a Single 500GBP Physical Server
Posted by on February 25, 2010
I am currently presenting a follow-up to my previous vTARDIS session for the London VMware Users Group where I demonstrated a 2-node ESX cluster on cheap PC-grade hardware (ML-115g5). The goal of this build is to create a system you can use for VCP and VCDX type study without spending thousands on normal production [...]
Installing ESXi on a Laptop
Posted by on February 24, 2010
Following on from my recent blog posts about the various ways to configure ML115 G5 servers to run ESX, I thought I would do some further experimenting on some older hardware that I have. I have a Dell D620 laptop with dual-core CPU and 4Gb of RAM which is now no longer my day-day [...]
