by Admin | Apr 2, 2011 | Virtualization, Windows |
My lab consists of pretty basic hardware, but still, it’s interesting to see performance benefits using different solutions. So I decided to see if there were any performance differences between using 2008 R2 NFS and Starwind iSCSI as storage for VMs. So I had...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2011 | Virtualization |
Do be able to move VMs between XenServers without shutting them down you need to create a pool You could do this via GUI: But I ran into problems since I have one ML115 G1 and one G5 with different CPUs. The GUI gave me the error “This server’s hardware is...
by Admin | Mar 28, 2011 | Virtualization |
In part 1, we installed StarWind iSCSI and added a simple virtual disk for a VM. In my lab I have a server (NAS1) with a 750 GB C: drive and the server is iSCSI-enabled using Starwind. From XenServer I want to install 20 VMs (Windows 2008 R2) on it, each with a 72 GB...
by Admin | Feb 16, 2011 | Virtualization |
So I decided to re-build my lab a little bit and test XenServer a little bit more with their version 5.6 FP1. I also decided to test Starwind iSCSI SAN Software 5.6 as iSCSI storage to keep some VMs. This tutorial will get your first VM running on iSCSI in minutes....
by DeploymentSwede | Feb 11, 2011 | Deployment, Virtualization |
If you’re going to deploy servers using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010(MDT 2010) you might want to add some special settings for virtual machines (VMs). For XenServer, check this post. You can add a lot of useful settings in each Task Sequence but if you’re...
by Admin | Feb 9, 2011 | Virtualization, Windows |
I’ve added a couple of XenServer 5.6 FP1 to my lab which also includes some Hyper-V and ESXi. To get some shared storage, I installed a 2008 R2 machine and installed NFS to be able store VMs on it. Here’s how I did it. On the NFS-server, use Server Manager...
