Vmdq Demonstration Netqueue VMware and Intel, which allows these robots in 1290 and 6 players, playing Counter-Strike on VMware ESX, without additional latency. The system has 36 virtual machines to 24 seeds with a 4-way Intel Xeon 7400 (Dunnington) system. The Electronic Sports League a 18:1 consolidation ratio achieved, and expects to save up to $ 384,000. Recorded at IDF 2008 blogs.intel.com
kb.vmware.com This video demonstrates how to enable SSH login for a root user in vmware ESX. For security reasons, access for root users using SSH is disabled by default.
This video is part of a series that shows you how to download, install, implement and deploy EMC Replication Manager in a vmware Environment show-casing management of consistent snapshots on a EMC Celerra running on a vmware esxi 3.5U1 server.
This video will show you how to leverage Hyper9 to identify all of the virtual machines in your environment that have media attached to them. vms that have media connected to them can cause problems since it can prevent a vmotion from occuring, and it can also cause problems with vmware DRS and DPM. In this scenario, there are two virtualcenter instances gathering information in the environment – a production VC and a Test/Lab VC. Using the search bar helper, we can build a query that will search and find the production VC instance, its virtual machines, and the vms that have media connected to them. Once you get the results back from your query, you can save that query for later use, and then export that data out to a report that can be used to notify the VM owners that media should not be left attached to production virtual machines. You can also leverage this query in a more proactive way by using the Hyper9 Alerting and Monitoring tool. You might want to be alerted anytime someone connects media to any of your virtual machines running in the production environment. In this way, you can be notified about virtual machines with media connected to them before you have a potential vmotion problem.
chriz stellt euch in dieser Folge von sysops den esxi Server von vmware vor. Mit ESX kann man mehrere virtuelle Server auf einem Rechner laufen lassen. Die kostenlose Version von esxi kann man auf der Homepage von vmware runterladen. www.vmware.com
If your like many IT Administrators or Managers you may be wanting to use VMWareESX Server for virtualizing servers but may meet resistance from others in your department or business unit. Many people are gun-shy on putting business critical applications on VMWare Virtual Servers and may resist if you try to go whole hog virtualizing these applications in the face of such resistance. We found a successful introduction to VMWareESX and virtual servers could be done by choosing to virtualize older systems and utilize VMWare initially to perform other functions besides replacing physical hardware for critical systems.
Consolidate older systems and stand alone processes: We had many large older servers that needed to be running but were not worthy of equipment upgrades. Everyone in IT wanted these boxes out of the server room but the data needed to be available in case of an audit or historical need. Some systems performed low level processing on a scheduled basis. We imaged theses systems to VMWareESX virtual servers using Ghost and an in place upgrade to get them booting again. We were able to run eight servers on a two processor Dell Blade server.
Use VMWare for a Development and Staging Environment: Today most organizations are moving to a structure where they utilize development and staging servers in addition to their production servers. VMWare Virtual Servers running on ESX make great environments to use Dev and Staging servers without adding a bunch of servers to your data center.
Using Citrix Metaframe Installation Manager? Use VMWare Virtual Servers for your packager. If you use Installation Manager for Citrix Metaframe Enterprise you will need a clean system running the same operating system as your Citrix server. Using VMWare Virtual servers as your packager allows you to keep a clean packager without adding hardware and rebuilding servers in your data center.
We used the ideas above to get value from VMWareESX Server and Virtual Servers in a “safe” environment. This provided a proof of concept for the gun-shy doubters and has paved the way for us to use VMWareESX Server in more critical environments.
I’ll begin this article by creating a fake company, BadDesign Inc. This company has 85 users and currently run 8 servers. The mix includes Microsoft OS, Mac OS X and some Unix boxes. Altogether there are six servers running in a poorly ventilated room. The small owner of BadDesign is from the old school of networking and has no interest in Managed Services. He once heard about it and sarcastically replied “and I own the Brooklyn Bridge!” Mr. Russell believes in the break/fix model. “Why must I pay for something that works all month? he asks with a feral growl. “I’ll pay if it’s broken”. What Mr. Russell ignores is the amount of downtime whenever that happens. Plus, most of the time he can’t locate the Mac guy. “I should have never used that silicon brain!” And “the Unix guy acts like he’s the President”. “I’m going crazy with these computer guys, it’s like they own my company!” Unfortunately this scenario is played out everyday, somewhere in the world.
My question is, how do you possibly sell Mr. Russell on virtualization? Do you educate him on the benefits of managed services first and then gradually introduce virtualization? The MSP has an undaunting task of converting the small business owner to paying for what is really intangibles. Education to me is the key to success. In my Security + classes one of the major tenets of network security is executive buy-in. The average SMB owner cannot be approached with technologies, he has to be placed in his comfort zone, profitability. Deposit a little, withdraw a lot.
Virtualization is the MSPs golden child. Knowledge of the technology will go a long way in winning over the client. The very first thing that needs to be addressed is the misconception that virtualization is new. Technologies that closely resemble virtualization was common in the 60s an 70s. I could picture Mr. Russel smiling and stressing “I knew it, all these new things and we go right back to the correct way!”. When processing power increased it became less expensive to move to PC servers as opposed to mainframe computing. Today’s network are victims of computer sprawl, some enterprise networks have hundreds of servers. The cost of housing, powering, cooling and maintaining these devices keep rising and rising. Virtualization gives the client the ability to run multiple servers and apps on one physical box. Due to the fact that there is a decrease in physical devices management becomes easier. The large developers have thrown money behind virtualization. Citrix buying ZenSource ($500m), Sun buying Innotek, Microsoft buying Softricity and Kidaro and VMWare. It is reported that VMWare has the majority of the market with their VMWareESX Server. With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is offering a new Windows Server Virtualization option. Windows 2008 Hyper-V allows you to run multiple servers inside one physical box resulting in more efficient use of hardware and administrative services. One major requirement is an x64 based processor.
I believe that if the MSP at first educates him/herself on the basic workings of virtualization it will require very little convincing. Just the demonstration of having multiple operating systems functioning independently on one physical machine is a great sales pitch. What is outstanding is that you can actually remove the physical server and yet have the same service. Mr. Russell can be converted. Like Miss Lanowitz, I totally agree that virtualization is the technology of the 21st century. Maybe by the next 25 years we will see virtualized community servers running movies, radio stations, complete classrooms, the potential is limitless.
