• October 7, 3 PM Central Time U.S. Selecting Storage for Virtualization 101
• October 14 Benefits and Uses of EqualLogic iSCSI for Virtualization
• October 21 When to Use Which Storage for Virtualization

Recent TechCenter Activities

• New, new, new: A new white paper on performance and power using the new 6-core processors with the new Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008, and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. Not exactly a fair race with the HP DL585, but we have the results: www.delltechcenter.com/page/Windows+Server+Virtualization+-+Hyper-V.
• Microsoft released the Hyper-V Server as a free download this week. Want to see what it looks like? Todd did too and decided to post the video of his install at www.delltechcenter.com/page/10-03-2008+Hyper-V+Server+Install+Video+for+Free+-+Comments. And just like all those great cooking shows, you don’t need to wait 90 minutes of real time for all the ingredients to bake; you can see the whole thing in five minutes.
• SCSI, SATA, or FC-AL the most reliable? Jeff Layton summarized the results of the PDSI study of very large sites in a recent post to his HPCC blog.
• In addition to the Dell Server Geeks, a number of other members chatted last week on what they saw at VMworld 2008 in the VMworld 2008 Summary and Reunion.

Favorite of the Week

• What seemed like a straight-forward question from one of our members: “What does iSCSI-enabled NIC mean” required sleuthing the documentation and even some lab testing. Turns out it can be an iSCSI hardware adapter, offload engine, and boot device. All the details are available in Todd’s post to the Virtualization Frontier.

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