So what do you get when you have an HP C7000 Chassis, 2 brocade switches and a EMC AX4-5 Clarrion, or CX4-120 and some VMWare licenses floating around…. Yeah that’s right! A big headache.. or maybe a chance to do something really cool! I’m going to attempt and write one section at a time for a total of 4 sections. Ok, so you’ve bought all this equipment or are maybe thinking about it… but you aren’t sure where to go from there? Well let’s take a look at some visuals and walk through the process. As for my given situation, we needed a solution for some of our major hub site here at work that were maxed out on power, switch ports, heat issues in the data center, and had ailing hardware (gateway….long story). Sure, you’re thinking a quick fix right? Throw the gateway servers out the door and buy some robust HP / Dell computers? Yeah, that sounded like a reasonable idea to me as well! But, we had a budgetary constraints, and a slough of other layer 7 (management) factors that I won’t even get into… Regardless, in our case we decided to go with VMWare and virtualize our servers… Sounds cool, huh? You betcha! It’s pretty l33t technology and I can’t get enough of it.. everyday I swear I learn something new. So down to the first order of business, where do we begin?
Well, luckily VMWare has a handy dandy little consolidation tool that comes built-in with VirtualCenter. We used that tool in our environment to analzye all of our physical servers. When that was said and done, we had close to 110 servers that were canidates for virtualization. After a lengthy battle to win-over our finance team, we were awarded some money to build our environment. This quick tutorial will be broken down into the following configurations: go through setting up a HP C7000, configuratin
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