Going “Virtual” means moving our legacy application servers from unreliable old servers onto Microsoft Virtual Server or VMWare Virtual Machines. In essence moving your physical server into a virtual server able to run in parallel with other server instances on a large host server.

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Our development team are gradually moving application servers over to a single Dell PowerEdge Quad Core Xeon server and we’re building up a stock of various capacity disks.

On the principle that you can never have enough backups – physically local and remote backup service – we spotted this over at Core77 for reusing these bare disks as backup media.

Far better than traditional SATA drive caddy solutions, these simply drop into their holder, without needing purchase of a caddy system and assembly time.  Available from ThinkGeek here for about $40.

There’s an alternative drive rack from GeekStuff4U for about €33 from (via Gizmodo).

Let the backup commence…

Nick Harrington
team Ambay Software

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