Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Living la vida VMware View

Just finished (but is it ever finished?) my 2-day reload of my laptop to prep for a new project and study in eating my own dogfood.  I’m planning to embark into a VMware View installation and test with our NFR licenses at work.  So, in reloading my laptop I’m wanted to prepare for providing the [...]

VMFS vs RDM? Does Miller Lite taste great or is it less filling?

There’s a good discussion over at vmetc.com concerning putting high performance Exchange/SQL VMs on VMFS backends or RDMs.  I posted a comment that I’m using VMFS for all SQL/Exchange VMs now, except in instances where we would like to take advantage of application aware SAN utilities for backups and/or SAN snapshots.  I neglected to make [...]