A Day In The Life Of.....

I'm teaching at UACCB this summer, and my Microeconomics class is taking their fist test. There's not a lot of smiles in the room....(which means my work here is done...lol). Anyway, spent the morning reading about tuningVMware ESXi, which was just released in version 4.0, and supports hardware that we can get in our private shelf at ThePlanet. We ordered 2 new servers this week, both dual-processor Quad Core Intel Xeon powered Dell Poweredge models with 16gb ram and a ton of disk space. This should make things a bit faster than our current configuration. We were going to migrate everything to VMWare Server but with the release of 4.0 and ThePlanet supporting ESXi in their datacenters, this move makes much more sense. ESXi handles resources much better, and since it's the embedded version and doesn't offer any real services except hosting VM's, it is more secure. I've been testing it on our office server, and it has worked flawlessly (and has the fastest install of an operating system I've seen in recent years). Migrating our existing VMWare Server over to ESXi is pretty painless to boot. I'll just have to make sure that I keep plenty of caffeine handy...;o)