was going to go in to work today to finish something I should have finished on Friday… and I may still do so. I’ve been feeling pretty lazy today. Woke up about 10am, got ready to go into work, but sat in front of the computer to play WoW. Got a headache, hopped offline and took a nap for a li’l bit. Then got up and went to lunch, came home and went back to bed. Got up, played more WoW, then some GeneRally. And now I’m posting to my site. Yesterday at work I got to learn about one of the coolest things EVAR! I started playing with VMware Server, a virtualization server. I got two virtual machines set up and was doing two simultaneous installs on this machine while it was already serving out webpages and the like. I was watching the load average on the host machine using top, which shows the currently running tasks as well as load average. The load on that machine never got higher than 5! Once the VMs were up and running, the load average on the host box dropped back down to about 0.25. Yeah, I’m jazzed like a li’l geek about this. I’m actually considering building yet another two VMs on that box and transferring the currently running services to their own VM. Why do I need so many VMs? I’m setting up demo machines for us to test various calendaring applications on. The host machine currently has Zimbra Collaboration Suite and WebCalendar running on it. I’m going to install Hula on one VM, and eGroupWare on the other. I’d like to put Zimbra and WebCalendar on their own VMs. This way, when we finally pick the calendar software we want to use, we can just shut down the other VMs and delete them. No fussy uninstall hassles, and no hardware to worry about decommissioning. And because I’m running these on VMs, I don’t have to worry about finding new hardware for testing on either. It’s pretty much a win-win situation. Okay, enough geeking out for me. I’m hopping offline to go watch TV or do something productive with myself. Thanks for visiting and Keep Coming Back!!!]]>