Migrating Xen to ESXi

27May09

After almost 6 months evaluating two virtualization solutions: Opensource Xen and VMware ESXi, it’s  time to do some consolidation. It’s actually partially triggered by the need to put a RAID system in place. The Xen server will become the new ESXi server, and the ESXi server will be used as the SAN server
The target system [...]

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Whitebox SAN Server

27May09

Over the weekend I was busy re-assigning the role of one of the desktops into a SAN server. This machine runs on AMD Athlon 64 1.8Ghz and Gigabyte K8-NF9 with 2GB DDR and 80GB IDE disk. No special casing nor rack system were used, just the good old desktop tower casing and some 400watts power [...]

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