Recommended Detailed Material on RDM’s
Jan 24, 2010 Blogs
I’ve been meaning to dig into something technical for a long time as a more than welcome change in daily routine. I’ve been on the hunt for a new house (in Utrecht), have been busy with the VMware Enterprise Solution Provider partnership and did a complete rebuild of my internal Lab Manager environment. Also, I’m beginning my preparations for the VCDX Design Exam (which I’m going to take at the end of February). A couple of months ago, I visited the subject of RDM’s from a different angle (link), but now I wanted to give a more complete report on the matter.
My Mobile Lab: @Baglab
Jan 23, 2010 Blogs
Besides the two Labs I have at work, I’ve gotten myself a new laptop to use as a lab-inbetween-home-and-work-lab.
Hypervisor Lab @Work
Two Dell PowerEdge T605 (see my previous post)
Lab Manager @Work
We’re running Lab Manager on three Dell PowerEdge 1950′s (16GB RAM, dual core Xeon’s) and a Dell/EMC AX150i with 12×500 GB SATA. Nothing really fancy, but an adequate solutions for our training and testing purposes.
Mobile Lab @Bag
A brand new Dell Latitude E6500
- Intel Core 2 Duo P9700
- 8GB 800MHz DDR2 RAM (2x 4GB)
- 250GB SATA-II HDD 7200RPM
- 15.4″ Wide Screen WUXGA (1920×1200) 2CCFL
- Mobile Intel GMA X4500HD
- Intel WiFi Link 5100 (802.11 a/g/n 1X2) 1/2 MiniCard with Centrino label
- US/Int – Internal Qwerty LED Backlight Keyboard
- 6 Cell 54WHr LI-ION Primary Battery
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (x64, English)
- 8x DVD+/RW Drive
I’m planning to replace the DVD-drive with an caddy with an Intel 80GB SSD:
- 2nd Hard Drive Caddy Modular Bay from New Mode US
- Intel SSDSA2MH080G2C1 80GB
I will be replacing the HDD with the SSD, and placing the HDD in the modular bay. The SSD will run my OS, applications and VM’s, as well as an iSCSI Target (to connect vESX VM’s to shared storage). The HDD will be use to place music, pictures, movies and application installation media (like ESX ISO’s).
