Sean Wilson

VMware vCenter Server - Virtual or Physical?

seanw@softwareknowhow.info — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:17:00 GMT

Here’s a conundrum – you are building a virtual infrastructure to host your businesses mission critical applications. Where do you put your vCenter Server? The documentation says it can be physical or virtual – but, be honest, do you really get a warm fuzzy feeling with the thought of managing your virtual infrastructure from a virtual machine hosted within that infrastructure?

Category: Virtualisation

Category: Systems

VMware ESX - Virtually Good Enough for Anyone!

seanw@softwareknowhow.info — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:14:00 GMT

Despite the apparent high cost of the VMware offering it remains the market leader. Why?

Tags: VMware,ESX,virtual

Category: Systems

Category: Virtualisation

Taking Care of Business

seanw@softwareknowhow.info — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:36:00 GMT

Most businesses these days realise that in the current climate you cannot afford to let any opportunity slip... Here I am going to show how a techie tool for monitoring systems and alerting the Systems Administrator to potential issues may be used to improve performance in other areas of the business!

Tags: Paessler PRTG network monitor

Category: Business

Category: Systems

How Much for Complete Peace of Mind?

seanw@softwareknowhow.info — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:46:00 GMT

If you are a Systems Administrator or responsible for systems in your organisation you are probably familiar with that gut-wrenching feeling that you get when a bunch of people arrive at your desk asking “Are you aware of any problems?” Of course it ain’t ever easy to answer such open ended questions - and the sad thing is that often the answer is “No!” in spite of the sudden arrival of evidence to the contrary...

Tags: Paessler PRTG monitor

Category: Systems