Schlagwort: ESXi

Nearly done

The project I described earlier, is nearly done. After installing ESXi, I set up 7 virtual machines. Two Windows Vista clients, one Windows 7 client, three Windows Server 2003R2 servers and one Windows Server 2008R2 server. I build a small domain, consisting of one domain controller, a small Windows Server 2003R2 cluster (two nodes), three clients for testing purpose and one 2008R2 server which shall run SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007R2. Unfortunately I had to interrupt my work, due to a missing DVD.

I heard, that I was scheduled to participate in a big project, which is very actual at Steria. My tasks would have been configuring many servers, configuring SAN controllers, configuring RAIDs and LUNs but unfortunately the customer now wants to use HP hardware instead of IBM hardware, so the project can not start yet and I hope, that it starts within my stay here at all.

Getting the third week started

Thanks to the bank holiday, this week starts today, Tuesday. I’m still overwhelmed by all the impressions I got this weekend. I just can highly recommend to visit Tobi’s blog and read his post about our weekend. He describes our coast trip, which I described earlier, with much blood, sweat and tears and I think it’s worth reading it. I’m still working on building a Windows environment with an ESXi Hypervisor, which was delayed due to Installation problems. The versions 3.5 and 4.1 did not cooperate with the hardware I have to use, so I was told to install Citrix XenServer. I spend a lot of time working with ESXi Hypervisor in Berlin so I’m very familiar with this product and its advantages. I missed many of them when I tried to set up VMs with XenServer. So I decided to spend more time on getting ESXi installed and I succeeded! Version 5.1 seems to be compatible and finally I  can handle the basic work.

A little project

During this week  I spend some time on configuring workstations for the NIPACS project, which was introduced in 2009. NIPACS means Northern Ireland Picture Archiving Communications System and enables hospitals to view digital medical patient data like MRTs on the computer and save it centrally in two data centers within Belfast. The advantage which comes with this technology is that medical patient data can be accessed by every hospital in Northern Ireland. The diagnostic workstations use very powerful hardware, meaning two Quad Core processors and 12 GB of RAM. Furthermore two high-definition displays of EIZO are used to view the medical pictures.

On Friday I got a little project. I have to set up a ESXi Hypervisor and configure a small Windows domain, including a Windows domain controller, a Microsoft SQL Server and some Windows Vista / Windows 7 clients. ESXi is already installed and the virtual machines have to be installed next week.