VMWare & 8GB of RAM makes a happy camper

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 [...]

CentOS 5.4 & VMWare Server 2 Issues

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 [...]

A VMWare Life -or why you should not get too greedy with Virtualization

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 [...]

VMWare Server 2.0.2 and Oh! Why I miss version 1 so much!

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?

I first came [...]