VMware ESX has the ability to clone templates, and this is a great feature when using iSCSI or FC datastores. When leveraging NFS datastores however, you lose thin provisioning on those NFS datastores. One way to get around this is to use a third party imaging software. Microsoft provides a free imaging package titled imageX. [...]
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With the decision of VMware to release the ESXi version of the industry leading hypervisor for free, one might wonder where else can I save money and still get enterprise level performance. One area is in the storage. The Solaris ZFS file system is a great starting point for small businesses looking to move into [...]
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In this post, I’ll discuss licensing when working in a clustered Microsoft environment. I’ll pick some of the more common Microsoft Apps and detail what is required to properly license them. Windows 2003 and 2008 support eight node clusters. In a two node cluster, you can technically have them configured in an active/active configuration. However, [...]
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