Archive for September, 2009

How we use virtualization in the Computer Science Department at Cal Poly, SLO

Historically, students and to a smaller degree faculty members, have requested server or other computing resources from the department to support projects or instruction.  In the past, the department was unable to satisfy these requests in a wholly satisfactory fashion.  Often students were given “yesterday‘s” aging hardware to use.  In some cases, depending on what leftover servers were available, they might not get anything at all.

We started experimenting with the possibility of using virtualization to better serve these needs mid 2005.   Read more

2009
09/22
CATEGORY
Virtualization
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Citrix XenServer is easy and free!

Just for grins, I loaded XenServer the other day.  It was *REALLY* easy.  No big surprises, get the installers for XenServer and XenCenter.  Load XenServer on the server you are going to use for a hypervisor host.  Load XenCenter on any old Windows machine.  You have to register for a free license, and then install it.

Compared to a vSphere and vCenter install, it was very simple and easy.

It seems to work well, too.

2009
09/17
CATEGORY
XenServer
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