I’ve deicided that it is time for me to build my own testing environment at home. I’ve been playing around with Vmware server and MS Virtual server for a while and they work OK to some extent. With Vmware I had 2 VM running with server os, but the speed of the whole system was quite slow as the hard drive LED was constantly on. To make thing better I’ve bought external USB drive and was creating VMs on it and that improved performance a lot, but then if I tried to create a VM with DB on it then things were getting slow again.
So after VMware made ESXi free I was thinking of getting my own server that I could use as a virtual testing lab 
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Nov
17
Oct
22
Download your System Center Virtual Machine Manager evaluation copy from here.
Jul
15
So yesterday I wanted to add permissions to a resource pool on ESX 3.5 but I could not do that because the option was not there.
That looked strange because I was able to do that on other ESX server that was running version 3.0.2
Apparently for some reason VMware removed that option starting version 3.5. so the only way to add permissions is to used Virtual Centre which of course you have to buy. Can I ask why VMware did that ?
Jun
27
Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, has now released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available for deployment into production environments. A beta of Hyper-V was included with Windows Server 2008 and this update provides the final release. (Read More)
Jun
24
Here is one problem that I ran into once Virtuozzo server was rebooted.
The server came up ok without any errors but once I started Parallels Management Console I was getting the following error:
Connection to vzagent was closed [error 10061 (No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.)]
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Mar
4
Feb
18
VMware publishes Comparison of Storage Protocols white paper. There you will find comparison between NFS, Software iSCSI, Hardware iSCSI and Fibre Channel.
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