Unofficial Spiceworks

Woo, a nice long and detailed post by me for once, to go along side Real World SMB Security and hopefully some more posts soon I wrote about my move to a virtual environment.

I’m going to start off by robbing Adam’s (DigitalBlacksmith) first couple of sentences. "To start with I am not what you would consider a virtualisation expert. I don’t have any certifications, I don’t go to expensive seminars, and I haven’t had a lucrative virtualisation career."

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Not having used any sort of server virtualisation before, I read some white papers and decided to test virtualising on a workstation first, and then an old server. I checked out various options for my test installation and ended up settling on VMware Vsphere4. It provided us with all the tools we needed to run the servers effectively as well as easily manage them.

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I checked out the Spiceworks virtualisation whitepapers, lots of YouTube videos, and other online training resources. Over time I became more confident. I installed ESXi on an old server so I could play around and get a grip on all the different parts of it, before trying to install and implement on the real servers. I was surprised at how easy it was to install and setup VMware. It was up and running within 30 minutes, ready and waiting for me to do something with it.

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Thanks to Nic (Spiceworks) for being a “grammar nazi” everyone knows by now mines not the best.

Want to write your own article? Just drop Nic a PM Would be great to see some more up in the From the Trenches of IT group.

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