New VMware vSphere Cluster

This month has been busy… very rewarding, but bizzzz-aye! Here’s our latest project come to close… upgrade our existing VMware infrastructure to new hardware to better utilize our existing licenses. Easy enough, right? Old environment: 3 x HP DL380 G5 servers, each identically configured as such: 2 x Dual Core Xeon Processors (1.6Ghz) 16 GB […]

Drobo Elite Performance Testing

I’ve had a Drobo Elite in my possession for way too long, and I would like to post this brief explanation of why I haven’t posted any test results yet. A few reasons actually… here we go. 1. Our test environment uses an HP ProCurve switch that claims can do etherchannel or port trunking. Unfortunately […]