TCS is pleased to announce that Gina Van Opens will be joining the TCS team! As an account manager, Gina will manage and oversee the many of the company’s southeastern Wisconsin accounts. Van Opens comes to TCS with solid years of experience in mid-market and enterprise IT management, sales, staffing, and strategic account planning & management areas.
You’ll first need to download the ESXi ISO image from the VMWare site. Free registration is required. Download and burn the ISO image using your favorite CD burning software.
Once complete, insert the VMWare ESXi CD into your server’s CD/DVD-ROM drive and be sure that the BIOS is set to boot from CD/DVD. Read more…
To effectively plan any storage project, it is important to know how to calculate true drive capacity. Although the cost of storage continues to decrease, valuable dollars can still be wasted through miscalculation of total drive capacity, resulting in the purchase of more storage than is actually needed. This is especially true when dealing with larger NAS or SAN arrays, as far too many vendors, drive manufacturers, and corresponding sales brochures round these figures off. When dealing with capacities in the terrabyte range, these seemingly small round-offs can add up to many gigabytes of storage that you’ll end up paying for.
For any spinning disk (non solid state), you’ll need to know three things:
The formula for calculating the total capacity is:
Cylinders x Heads x Sectors/Track x 512 = Total Capacity
The formula would result in a number similar to 20,003,880,960 (for a 20GB drive).
