Monday, February 07, 2011
Nearly there!
Adaptec 2405 card now in the second Hp MicroServer so the storage side of things are sorted. LG Blu Ray / DVD drive turned up today so that's been fitted and seems to be working OK, although to be fair it hasn't had to do too much yet, need to give that a bit of a workout later! Have ordered a couple of Intel NICs which will occupy the remaining x1 slot in each of the machines, whilst the internal NIC seems to work OK in general and in vSphere they are not, IMHO(!!), in the same league as a good Intel card, I'm tempting fate I know! ;)
What did we do before virtualization? To be able to conjure up entire new machines in a little home lab within a matter of minutes is just so useful, having used VMWare workstation for a good while now and thinking that was good I even more impressed with VMWare's vSpehere offerings, the tools just make life easy. And that's what I want, just want it to be there and working and no hassle for little me;)
What did we do before virtualization? To be able to conjure up entire new machines in a little home lab within a matter of minutes is just so useful, having used VMWare workstation for a good while now and thinking that was good I even more impressed with VMWare's vSpehere offerings, the tools just make life easy. And that's what I want, just want it to be there and working and no hassle for little me;)
