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Resource allocation for Virtual Machines
Ever since I started transitioning our production systems to my ESX cluster, I’ve been fascinated how visible resource utilization has become. Or to put it another way, how blind I was before. I’ve also been interested to hear about the natural tendency of many Administrator’s to over allocate resources to their VM’s. Why does it…
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Virtualization. Making it happen
It’s difficult to put into words how exciting, and how overwhelming the idea of moving to a virtualized infrastructure was for me. In 12 months, I went from investigating solutions, to presenting our options to our senior management, onto the procurement process, followed by the design and implementation of the systems. And finally, making…