Comments on: Virtualization for Small Business

By: cisco market place

cisco market place — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:52:48 +0000

Thank you,
The information you have shared is very informative.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:56:22 +0000

As the implementer of virtualization for our organization (we are actually a school, but the size of an SMB) I can relate to all the information in this article. Very well surmised. To avoid the significant cost increases and still reap the benefits, I implemented a software based SAN solution. It natively integrates with the Hyper-V hosts and turns the local storage into iSCSI targets on both servers in the cluster. It also mirrors the images between the servers providing redundancy within the SAN itself. Virtualizing our server environment was one of the first things I began working on when I started.

By: Server Virtualization

Server Virtualization — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:01:25 +0000

It’s easy for small businesses to find virtualization solutions that fit their needs, if they know where to look!

By: DeidraJow

DeidraJow — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:23:14 +0000

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the excellent post on virtualization and the SMB marketplace. I thought you did a good job of providing the background and IT justification for virtualization.

I thought I’d chime in with some resource links from Microsoft. They’re trying to tailor help to the SMB community and they have a couple of tools / links below that might be worth checking out for those who want further resources.

Best,

Deidra
The Microsoft SMB Outreach Team
[email protected]

Links:
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/hub.mspx
Microsoft Small Business Center
http://www.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/
Pinpoint tool to help you find technology experts and special applications
http://www.microsoft.com/business/mycenter/default.aspx?CR_CC=
Microsoft Business Resource Center

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:53:46 +0000

You may want to update the MacOS X section. Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard can run as a guest on Parallels Server for Mac (http://www.parallels.com/products/server/mac/sr/).

No affiliation with Parallels. On the contrary, I’m running VMware Fusion at home.

By: Will Bradley

Will Bradley — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:49:40 +0000

Thanks for this. I’ve known most of this for awhile now but it’s good to see it clarified in terms of SMB since the biggest fear is “improper planning” — i.e. using the hardware I’m already comfortable with instead of splurging on SANs or blades — leading to catastrophe or just horrible ROI.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:32:21 +0000

Great article Scott! Thumbs up!
Do you have any real implementation / case study of implementing virtualization on SMB? I haven’t poke around your website yet 🙂