Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Virtualizing your Production Hardware Infrastructure

All too commonly these days, data center managers are running out of electrical sockets and blue-cable. As we all know, the internet is a series of tubes (or "tewbz") and that blue cable (or yarn, string, or lanyards) are capable of conducting the internet to our machines.

What if I told you, you could use new VIRTUAL technology to get more server out of the same space?  With such technologies as Windows Advanced Server 2000 running Virtual PC running Windows 2003R2 OS, you CAN achieve maximum rackspace with one blue cable.

Most Virtual Machines, or "VM"'s, only require approximately 256 mB of PC100 RAM. Overclocking to PC133 is suggested for high-traffic locations.  You'll probably want to go to a dynamic-disk configuration (effectively, splitting your 100gB C: drive to be three volumes: C:\ OS D:\ SQL E:\ PORN).

This will save the company money and time.

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