Aha.. I'm successfully consolidate my old server to new VMware ESX 3.5 server. Instead I'm running all services on single server (celeron 1.7Ghz) previously, now I manage to isolate different services (squid, firewall, apache, mysql & etc) running on different virtual machines (VM). How many VM I want to create after this really depend on how many resources still available on my dual core machine. As for now, within dual core 2x 2100Mhz & 3GB of memory I supposedly can have about 8 to 10 VM without any issue. I might add another VM for Windows server after this. Why?. It's because I dont have any knowledge on windows server :)

 

 

It's already June and another vmware server consolidation project is already in but this time the project location is Johore Bahru (JB). One ESX server with six virtual machine and must be finished within two weeks. Ahhh sigh!!! The IBM server & rack also need to be installed too... 

I've being stumbling on what server virtualization method that I'm gonna use for my new server environment recently. Do I have to go with VMware server, VMware ESX, Xen-SUSE or OpenVZ. 

 

VMware-server would be an ideal choice for me If I'm planning to have 2-3 virtual machine sitting inside my new server. It's easy to setup but will reduce the number of virtual machine involve in the environment which I don't want to. I never try Xen-SUSE para-vitualized but my Sifu said, the performance is better compare with VMware server but there is disadvantages of Xen. Unlike VMware-server, we can't simply assign memory resources exceed or more than what physical memory have. OpenVZ claiming they can be run faster compare with other virtualization method & someone already run 5 virtual machine with only 1GB physical ram which is absolutely unbelievable. (Hope it's not only running all 5 VM's with DSL linux as guest OS). By the way, OpenVZ will only let me running linux as my guest OS. Last but not least, VMware ESX can be my first choice too and I'm still waiting my ESX supported NIC card (Intel Pro/100) arrive before I can play around with ESX. So far, ESX 3.5. failed to detect my 3com & AMD pcnet32 NIC before but with Intel Pro/100 card coming in within this week, it's really boiling my blood now! 

 

 

The news totally suprising me!  Read original artical here 

Just back from my 1st day VCP training at Menara KUB.com today. At the beginning, I thought I'm the one who new to this VMware technology especially on ESX 3.5. But, after the intro session by each of participants then I realized the guys from EDS, Teliti Sdn Bhd, Transition & etc also come to the training with zero knowledge.

Nevermind, I just want to share few important things we need to concentrate during the installation & configuration of ESX 3.5. To be fair, I wouldn't write down all the details of steps by steps installation & configurations of the training just to avoid any wrong-info given since I'm new to this & remember, I still not finished with my training yet.