I finally seemed to have caught a nice break. I had recently rebuilt a lab server at home. The basic setup is Fedora Core 10 & VMware Server 2.0.2, 4GB memory and a 500GB WD-Blue SATA2 drive, all managed by the latest AMD Athlon II X4 processor.
I had a handful of VMs I wanted to [...]
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A few days ago I started a series of articles that were meant to deal with my very own experiences, frustrations and adventures in trying to resurrect my development environment. I am, among many things, a production & development DBA and overall systems enthusiast -or you can call me a geek, I don’t care. This is [...] Call me old fashioned. I am used to the good ole days when after a nasty computer crash, or too much clutter and the du-jour need for a clean install of Windows, I could simply pop-in my Windows XP Pro upgrade CD in, whack my entire hard drive and start the install process. During this time, [...] So, like I mentioned on my first dab into VMWaredom, virtualization heaven came for me at the right time and the right place. It bought me a heck of a lot extra hardware, for which the company didn’t have any funding for. And like most companies do, management was still expecting deliverables by the day. Virtualization Such a wonderful concept. Use the same 10 year old -back then- monster server, you had to run your entire Active Directory, and put it to better use running multiple servers, each isolated from the other. Even better, how about a self contained development-testing-production environment for a start up company? |
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