The number of guest OSes that can be hosted is limited by CPU power, RAM, hard disks and network bandwidth.
Creating a Linux Virtual Machine Part Deux
The VMTools required installation of kernel headers for Fedora Core 9, after a bit of head-scratching, I managed to find it. This is done by Googling on compiling kernels and kernel headers.
Administrating VMware Server’s Guest OS using scripts
Sometimes you need to control the guest OS or the virtuals by script. Good example is stopping all the guests or virtuals to take a backup. For VMware server, this is controlled by using Perl script via vmware-cmd.
Creating a Linux Virtual Machine
Recently I have the chance to create a Fedora 9 virtual machine on VMware server. This is to replace a crashed server that ran out of disk space. Since it was running off a Compaq ML server. I thought this…
Another project completed
After 3 months of straightening up processes, my work at this charity is done. Along the way, I managed to rebuild a Linux server. My first production Linux server, not really a complete set up as I actually wanted it…
Cloning the HP way part deux
Using HP’s Server Migration Pack to do migration requires three servers. The source, destination and the application server. If there is a firewall in between any of these servers, you will need to open some ports. Windows Firewall is automatically…
Backing up VMware ESX 3.02 using Symantec 11d
This looks simple from the start. Install a Symantec Backup Exec 11d media server, a Remote Agent for Linux and Unix Servers (RALUS) inside the ESX server. Run a backup job and it is done! And then some.
VMware ESX 3.02
Installed my first ESX server on an HP DL380 G5, quite an interesting experience. Overall the process is very smooth. The server is a standard edition, so I just accepted all the suggested defaults. My datastore is going to be…
Cloning servers the HP way
HP offers this nifty little software to help you to migrate your installation from the old or another platform to Proliant servers. With a management server, it will reboot the source server and copy the partitions directly to the destination…