In today’s data centers, many companies are turning to virtual environments for their needs. A GUI interface can be a great tool to use when managing your virtual environments, and this is the case with VMware ESXi. The whole VMware environment can be managed by the GUI, but sometimes administrators want to have more access and options [...]
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VMware ESXi – Enabling SSH Access
January 17th, 2012 · No Comments · Servers, VMware, Virtualization
Tags: Servers·Virtualization·VMware
Importing Linux Clients Into a Virtual Environment
February 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Linux, Managed Services, Servers, VMware, Virtualization
One of our customers has a small Linux farm of servers that provide a variety of functions including MySQL and some internal web services. Recently we began pulling these servers into a unified VMWare environment for ease of use and fault tolerance. The Windows based servers have been relatively simple to import, but the CLI [...]
How to Upgrade Exchange 2003 to 2007—Part 1
February 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Managed Services, Microsoft, Servers, VMware, Virtualization
One of our customers has recently moved their infrastructure into a VMware environment. Along with this move, we have decided to update their Exchange environment from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Exchange 2007 requires a 64-bit processor, so an in-place upgrade is not possible. A new, 64-bit server must be turned up, and then mailboxes [...]
Tags: Dallas Data Center·Dedicated Servers·Exchange 2007·Microsoft·Server·Virtualization·VMware
How virtualization can help reduce MPLS costs
January 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, VMware, Virtualization
For those of you who are currently utilizing Citrix and are looking to find a way to scale your business to remote users or remote sites, check out Access Gateway VPX. The Citrix Access Gateway used to be offered only on a physical appliance that you had to purchase, which turned a lot of SMB’s away based on the cost. Now the Access Gateway can be purchased for $995 per instance and is offered as a virtual appliance!
Tags: Citrix·Dallas Data Center·VDI·Virtual Desktops·Virtualization
Dallas Data Center Partners With The Planet to Deliver “Colo By The U”
September 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Consolidation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Green IT, Linux, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft, Routers, Security, Servers, Storage, Switches, Uncategorized, VMware, Virtualization
HOUSTON, September 7, 2010 – The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that Dallas Data Center (http://www.DallasDataCenter.com), a provider of Colo By The U, is the company’s newest referral partner, and joins its growing portfolio of referral agents within the Partner Plus program. Through the partnership, The Planet provides colocation services from its wholly [...]
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VMware Migration
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Consolidation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Routers, Security, Servers, Storage, Switches, VMware
Our Dallas Data Center team recently took over IT management for a customer who was experiencing poor VM performance in an environment which consisted of ESX 3.5 Enterprise with two hosts and an iSCSI SAN which was, for all practical purposes, homemade. The performance issues appeared to reside primarily in the SAN which only had [...]
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