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http://viarengo.com has been running smoothly on VMware for more than 10 days now. CPU utilization is around 10% which is common in many IT applications out there. I am running two virtual machines on the server now: My web site A file server. Unfortunately I don’t really have the need to utilize the […]
April 25, 2009
After few days running smoothly on ESXi, I got my first scare. Here is what happened: First, I upgraded the Windows XP instance running within the VM to SP3. Then, I created a new Virtual Machine from scratch on my running ESXi server to learn how to do it. The idea was to create a […]
April 21, 2009
Quick Recap: I installed VMware ESXi on my old desktop (turned server) and deployed the VM file I previously created using VMware Converter standalone. My web site has been up for 4 days and I am back to my usual average load of 20 hits a day (yeah!!!). The family in Italy is happy that […]
April 17, 2009
My virtualization journey continues. Quick recap: I created a Virtual Disk File (luckily 3 days before the hard drive of the server died) containing my web application plus all related data. This will turn to be a management challenge later on given the size of the VM (120GB). My alternatives now are to deploy this […]
April 15, 2009
Now that I have my Virtual Machine file with 10 years of my life on it (as well as the last semi-production code I have written) I need to deploy it an run it on a virtual server. I have two alternatives: Run VMware Server on top of my new 4 core desktop running Vista […]
April 15, 2009
The first step in my journey to a virtualized environment is to turn my physical website into a Virtual machine file. First, let’s talk about what runs on the server. Hardware: Intel-Pentium 4 based HP desktop, 2.8Mhz with 1.5 G of RAM and a couple of ~100G ADE Hard Drive. Software: Operating System Windows XP […]
April 10, 2009
I recently started to work at VMware. It is a new technology field for me, after development tools, databases, XML and lots of middleware at BEA and Oracle. After taking a break for a few months during which I looked at various opportunities (in one of the worst economic climate in recent history), I decided […]
April 29, 2009
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