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VMWare ESX Server Installation and Migration
Calgary Science Center (Telus World of Science) - designed and implemented this ESX Server installation that required resolving existing AD problems and the migration of the existing server data to newly installed virtual machines. The implementation has saved the customer numerous hours of troubleshooting problems as the new server environment is proving more reliable then the previous environment.
VMWare ESX Jumpstart
Macleod Dixon - VMWare Jumpstart which included the installation of the hardware, ESX Software, 2 Virtual Machines, provided training to the administration staff and assisted in the design of the backup solution.
VMWare Physical to Virtual migration
Developed processes, provided the solution to migrate 9 NT4 machines in 9 days (which included preparation time). This also provided AFSC with the ability to re-use this methodology for future servers in their environment. Provided a reproducible methodology that has since been used to migrate additional NT4 machines to the production VMWare servers by the client. This was all done BEFORE any automated tools were created by VMWare or 3rd parties.
VMWare GSX to ESX Server Upgrade and Production Site Administration
Architected, designed and implemented a production GSX server environment to introduce this customer to virtual machine technology to save them money during the start-up phase of this software development company. Initially running 8 VM’s on two physical servers which included Window 2003 running IIS 6, Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003, SQL 2000 on Windows 2000 and 3 in development proprietary applications.
This fast growing company required more virtual machines than GSX could support, the upgrade from GSX to ESX server was justified. Installed 2 additional servers (total of 4) and the client's virtual machine count exceeds 50 virtual machines. Completed the upgrades required to bring these servers from ESX 1.x to 2.5.3 over the last 2 years. Explained the value and put ESX 3 into the budget for the upcoming year along with centralized storage. Prior to using Virtual Center, using the COM objects provided by VMWare, Rod created an application to monitor the site and each VM giving email notification when a VM changes state.
VMWare ESX Server Installation and Migration
Calgary Science Center (Telus World of Science) - designed and implemented an ESX Server installation that required resolving existing AD problems and the migration of the existing server data to newly installed virtual machines. The implementation has saved the customer numerous hours of troubleshooting problems as the new server environment is proving more reliable then the previous environment.
VMWare GSX on Linux
Installed VMWare GSX for Linux on SUSE and Red Hat. Created nightly scripts to integrate backups. Setup NFS shares for sharing ISO files between servers to NAS device. |
