Tag Archives: IGT

IGT Part 7: Virtual VMware ESX 4 in high demand

This article is part of a series on Incoming Google Traffic (IGT). It is very clear that the VMware community loves the ability to run virtual instances of VMware ESX 4 — this has been the most popular VCritical article … Continue reading

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IGT Part 6: Cluster invari-what ID?

SCVMM adds a custom attribute to VirtualCenter (vCenter). Continue reading

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IGT Part 5: Hyper-V snapshots are not gone until the VM is powered off

Unlike VMware ESX, when administrators delete snapshots on Hyper-V, the disks are not merged until the VM is powered off — potentially filling up disks. Continue reading

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IGT Part 4: Failover frustration

This article is part of a series on Incoming Google Traffic (IGT). Want to know what happens if your virtualization platform uses native OS clustering technologies to provide highly-available virtual machines?  You become an unwitting cluster administrator.  I’m referring to … Continue reading

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IGT Part 3: One-VM-per-LUN doubters

This article is part of a series on Incoming Google Traffic (IGT). Picture this: you finally have your shiny new Hyper-V cluster configured, after asking your SAN administrator to create a LUN for you.  You create a virtual machine on … Continue reading

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