Recent content by SimonD

Or just create a template and have it working from the get go, creating a template for your OS installs really should be the approach that everyone uses for commonly deployed OS's, not just for aligning disks but also cutting down on deployment time.

Not really going to help with a Linux partition although a nice article. Have a look at this article here which discusses RHEL

Why not get a HP MicroServer instead? it's a great little unit that actually handles itself quite well against the likes of the Iomega IX4-200D (it performs better and is cheaper).

As I understood it, if you installed Windows 7 onto the SSD from scratch it automatically disabled the services\features that are detrimental to SSD's. As far as a defragger is concerned, personally speaking I would have a look at Raxco Perfect Disk, it's SSD aware and one of the better...

Sure, here you go. http://www.veeam.com/nfr/free-nfr-license

I would honestly look at running iometer from a running machine that's stored on the SAN to see what kind of IOPS you're getting because being honest if people can (and do) run ESXi on the HP MicroServer with a dual 1.3ghz cpu I couldn't see the Opties being too much of an issue. Running the...

http://www.veeam.com/

Alternatively have a look at Veeam software, it's especially worth your while if you're a VCP\VCI\vExpert as they are doing a deal where you can get a 2 socket NFR license for free.

Decent USB keys or cheap things? I would see what happens if you disable jumbo frames across the board and see if that works for you, I have experienced in the past issues where it was enabled but due to a certain piece of hardware it wasn't working as expected. I would look at running...

I was going to suggest ESXi over Hyper-V, smaller footprint and IMHO a better product (even though we are a Hyper-V house).

My current home lab is comprised of. 3 Lenovo T200 Servers (2 of them have E3450 CPU's, 1 has E3560 CPU) each with 24GB ECC running ESXi 4.1u1 from 2gb SanDisk Blade Keys 1 Iomega IX4-200D 1 HP MicroServer (8GB) currently being used for NAS\SAN Performance Testing (using Iometer and scripts...