With our growing customer base and usage, Securlogic just purchased another Sun Fire X2100. The shipment arrived on Monday and I have been running around town trying to loan a USB keyboard and struggling to get the box to boot off a USB disk. ESX 3i simply refuses to boot so I got it running with a copy of CentOS 5 (LiveCD) using the Fedora Live USB Creator. Lesson learnt - keep a USB keyboard or a USB to PS/2 converter near you and don’t buy a server without a DVD drive.
Meanwhile, the virtualization infrastructure is due for an upgrade (we’re still on VMware Server 1.x). I’m evaluating VMware ESX 3i, VMware Server 2.0 (on CentOS 5.2), Citrix XenServer and Sun xVM VirtualBox and I’ll just drop a few quick pointers for those who are going though the same process as I am.