Virtualizaton, VMware vSphere 5.1, ESXi Hypervisor, VMware Player, Oracle VirtualBox, Hyper–V, Drobo 5N for Jim – HT119
Summary: Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Christian Johnson (@TheWizBM), Kyle Wilcox (@kylejwx) and Paul Baran (@Tinkererguy) for Home Tech episode #119. We want to welcome Kyle to his very first Home Tech appearance! In the first of a 3 part Series on Virtualization, we will cover some of the VM setups of guys from our community. Not necessarily a how to but more of a show and tell, we hope to cover all things Virtualization for the Average Tech Guy. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: Paul Braren, blogger at TinkerTry.com @tinkererguy I talked a bit about running a virtualization lab in one’s home 24x7, for both practical (daily family pc backups using a Windows Server 2012 Essentials VM) and professional (certification/self-training) reasons. My focus was on VMware vSphere 5.1, with it’s ESXi Hypervisor, there’s a lot you can do, even with free version: TinkerTry.com/free-vmware-vcenter-server-appliance-5-1-download-install-configure I'll also touch upon why some folks might want to run Hyper-V nested inside ESXi 5.1 TinkerTry.com/esxi-5-1-can-run-hyper-v-server-2012 TinkerTry.com/superguide-vmware-vsphere/ Finally, I’ll mention VMware Player as a free alternative to the popular Oracle VirtualBox, since most folks don’t really need full VMware Workstation: TinkerTry.com/freevmwareplayercancreatevms TinkerTry.com/vmware-workstation-9-released-august-23-2012-fine-free-version-called-vmware-player-5-0 Here’s the variety of links we chatted about, most of which can be found in this category view: TinkerTry.com/category/virtualization/esxi/ TinkerTry.com/converterstandalone5vmwithworkstation7 TinkerTry.com/vmware-converter-for-drive-resizing TinkerTry.com/vmwareconverterspeedup TinkerTry.com/freevmwareplayercancreatevms TinkerTry.com/vmware-workstation-9-released-august-23-2012-fine-free-version-called-vmware-player-5-0 TinkerTry.com/maczilla http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html TinkerTry.com/esxi-5-1-download TinkerTry.com/esxi-5-1-sort-of-supports-usb-3-0 TinkerTry.com/raidabuse-mediasonic Kyle asked about speed, my answer was in the above article about the $180 Mediasonic HFR2-SU3S2, mentioning that RAID5/USB 3.0 speed was about 175MB/sec reads and 125MB/sec writes, quite respectable and affordable, with one eSATA cable or one USB 3.0 cable attachment. RAID5 is built into the unit itself, push button ease of configuration, can regain access to array by installing in second unit or even using software to mount them individually attached to SATA ports on a mobo, for example. Attach to motherboard with the long cable eSATA to SATA cable mentioned here: TinkerTry.com/psod-by-esata I should probably do a SuperGuide on the Mediasonic: TinkerTry.com/superguides Even this cheap RAID enclosure’s health can be monitored from within VMware ESXi 5.1: TinkerTry.com/esxi-5-1-can-run-lsi-megaraid-in-a-vm TinkerTry.com/lsi92xx-health-under-esxi-51 YouTube video that walks through the entire ESXi 5.1 datacenter at home process, soup to nuts: http://youtu.be/QPtStneewys Finally, the SeeEye2Eye device that allows me to actually look at my webcam, where I see the person I’m talking to superimposed over the lense. Share this Amazon shortcut http://fave.co/10LFMbk or visit the full article (that’ll be updated over time) at: TinkerTry.com/see-eye-2-eye Kyle Wilcox, @kylejwx -One of my favorite virtualization use cases has been putting a VMware VMDK virtual hard disk file on my 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive. I have installed Windows 7 Pro. I can plug this into any computer that is running VMware Player, and get to my virtualized desktop. My inspiration for this was that all the computers at my college campus had VMware Player installed. I could just take the USB flash drive around to any computer on campus and pull up my personal desktop,
