My home ESXi test environment
Jan 9, 2010 Server Virtualization, Technology
As an earlier post of mine stated I was looking into setting up an ESXi test environment. I previously have been running a custom installation of Ubuntu Hardy with VMware Server 1.0.5 on it. Even though that system has been running very reliable for the past year I wanted more. At my day job we have 2 ESX servers that run most of our infrastructure along with a few older servers that have not been moved virtual yet. I wanted to have a similar interface at home as we do at work so that is the reason for setting up this ESXi test environment. Below I will outline what hardware I am running on, special configurations for the machine and what I think so far after running it for a little over a week. Read the rest of this entry »
