Dave and the guys over at the Home Server Show have released podcast number 75.
Here is what Dave says about this weeks show:
The Home Server Show 75 – Virtualization Part 2
In episode 75 John, Jim, Chris, and Dave take a look at what’s going on in news, forums, and posts. Our featured guest is Tom Sydow(wodysweb) and we will be talking more about virtualization and the hardware your going to need to get started. If you missed part one you might want to give it a listen as well. Episode 68 will get you started in virtualization. Be sure to hit the forums and discuss.
We welcomed some new writers to homeservershow.com
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I’ll be giving away a couple of licenses for Gladinet via Twitter next week. Sign up and follow homeservershow on Twitter.
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Hardware and Virtualization
CPU
• Intel – VT-x virtualization technology
• AMD – AMD-V virtualization technology
Chipset
• Intel VT-d technology
• AMD IOMMU, coming in the 800 series chipsets
Storage Controllers
• SATA
• PATA
• SCSI
• SAS
• ISCSI
VM Storage
• Vmdk
• Vhd
• Pass-through
• Fixed vs. dynamic disks
• Local
• San (iscsi, sas…)
• Clustered Shared Volumes
Networking
• Physical NIC
• Virtual NIC
• Management NIC
• Virtual Switch
• Virtual Port Groups
RAM
• Nothing special, just plenty of it!
Expansion Cards (PCI/PCIe/PCI-X) Support
• RAID cards
• TOE Networking Cards
• Ceton CableCard J
USB Support
• Flash drives
• USB HDDs
• USB TV Tuners
Management
• Hyper-v Management Snap-in
• vSphere Client
Resource Provisioning
• CPU Reservation
• RAM Reservation
• Disk allocation
• Resource pools
• Resource shares
Hypervisor Installation
• Local Disk
• Flash Memory
System differentiators ESXi vs. Hyper-V relating to WHS
• Running other Linux vs. windows VM’s
• Smaller vs. larger hypervisor footprint
• Direct disk access pass-through
• Hardware pass-through
• Read virtual disk files on other systems
• Fail-over & load balancing
• Backups
• Driver support (HCL lists)
• Memory over commitment
• Thin provisioning of disks
Oh and Dave, thanks for the mention on last week’s show – I think! 🙂
You can listen to it, or download it, as usual, from here.
