Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Update on the Cheap ESX Home Server
Posted by on January 31, 2008
All running well, we had a power cut the other day but the PC didn’t automatically power back on when power was restored; I wonder if there is a BIOS setting for that – PC’s always used to have something along those lines. Bit of manual intervention to switch it on and it was [...]
Windows 2008 RC1 running with 32-Cores
Posted by on January 26, 2008
cool.. http://www.hpcsystems.com/blog/?p=24 Hyper V apparently only supports 16 cores , but here’s some info on hyper V running on an 4 x 4 CPU core system. Won’t be long before the price point for these really drops; imagine how many VM’s you can cram on one of these at the recommendation of 3vCPu:1pCPU-Core. (8 [...]
Nice & Tidy Rack Cabling
Posted by on January 25, 2008
Yeah, one for the real geeks to appreciate (myself included!) I’ve been guilty of some not so nice installs in the past where time allocated supercedes art by a significant margin… but these are ace! Shame we can’t really stack cabs with 42 x 1U servers anymore without someone coming to shout at me [...]
Where There’s Blame, There’s a ….
Posted by on January 24, 2008
Argh, I hate this kind of thing .. give us £5.99 and we’ll send you some PDFs to allow you to claim compensation from the govt. for identity fraud arising from the loss of confidential data, if you read around a little bit I doubt they’ll be paying much out unless something serious really [...]
Encrypting Documents in-Transit – is WinZip Enough?
Posted by on January 24, 2008
I’ve looked at this topic a number of times as we often have requirements to send sensitive files around – lots of customers send them to me via email/FTP or on CD within encrypted WinZip files as this is what they find easiest as it’s pretty ubiquitous rather than having to agree a compatible [...]
Security in "Virtual Clouds"
Posted by on January 22, 2008
Interesting article here What if you could breach the hypervisor? best practice would dictate firewalling off the management traffic to the service console to a management network but what if you could exploit the VM Tools or other enlightenments/paravirtualizations to compromise the hypervisor – if you could you own every VM it’s running. Does [...]
Apple: Nothing to see here, move along please
Posted by on January 22, 2008
This is a bit underhanded; preventing debugging tools from tracing your applications especially when the underlying OS is derived from Open Source technology where one would expect to have such access. Although you can obviously patch it yourself as you can have the source and recompile the associated binaries; bit of a waste of [...]
Lots of Useful Scripts to Automate VMWare
Posted by on January 22, 2008
http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/categories/10-VMware-PowerShell Like this one … must have a go at this http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/316-Create-multiple-VMs-using-PowerShell.html and http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/279-My-first-VMware-PowerShell-script.html Wonder if you can also use these against the Free VMWare Server?
VMWare Stage Manager – No P2V/V2P Integration
Posted by on January 22, 2008
Ah, show-stopper for me for most of my potential customers; as far as I can tell from the demo video the product is geared more towards a VM-only environment. Maybe I misunderstood the announcements but I had thought I would be able to clone physical production servers (P2V and V2P) into stage manager for doing [...]
VMWare Stage Manager Beta is Open..
Posted by on January 22, 2008
Go and get it from here I spent a lot of time at the start of 2007 building this type of system from scratch (see the build a better test lab posts). hopefully this will go a long way to making it easier to achieve.
