It has been a very long time, too long in fact, since I have made the time to do some blogging...
I have decided that this is very lax of me and this must change...
To that end I have taken steps to get a decent test environment up and running so that I can try out the growing portfolio of virtualisation products and tools. With VMware, Microsoft and Citrix now all providing numerous virtualisation products, from Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors, VDI solutions and application virtualisation there is plenty to keep me interested. I have decided to start the new posts with the Microsoft Virtualisation product line.
The test server I decided to use is a HP Microserver, this fit my goals:
- Reasonable specs to run enough virtual machines (Dual Core AMD processor & maxed out to 8GB of RAM)
- Internal Storage - the plan is to get shared storage later on, but for now local storage met my cost requirements
- Talking of cost requirements, I wanted the server to not impact my bank balance too much
I have been very impressed with the server so far. It is very quiet, Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 installed with no issues at all and I have VMs up and running in a very short time frame.
So now I have my environment up and running more posts will follow :)
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