July 2009

Virtualize Me Part 1

Submitted by mike on Tue, 2009-07-28 13:49

Just one year ago I would have identified myself as a Microsoft computer guy. I used Intel and AMD based PC equipment and servers over most of the last tweleve years. To me, the computer holy wars were over long ago and I had settled into a comfortable living in the PC world.

3,000 servers costing a million a month to run on the back end

Submitted by mike on Fri, 2009-07-24 16:59

I just finished reading this story/interview with SearchMe.com CEO Randy Adams.

Virtual drive on eSATA drive won't mount

Submitted by mike on Wed, 2009-07-22 01:46

I originally posted this question in the VMWare Communities area on May 24, 2009

"I have a Dell 2650 ESX 3.5 server running with a 1TB eSATA drive as a storage unit for dumping off daily differential backups. The eSATA card is a Sil3114 chipset.