Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between

  …I haven’t applied mine yet, but the Lone sysadmin has reported some problems with VMotion on their system since applying. details here might be co-incidence but always worth keeping this kind of thing on your radar. Hilights the fact that automated tools do not a good patching process make.

  …and it’s free! – get it here http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=476 Thanks to Mike Laverick – an excellent doc I like the look of the new update manager and the dynamic power saving stuff… have to wonder how well suspend/wake on LAN will really work in a switched environment.. I’ve never had much success with it in [...]

  No, not another post about floating data centres, A whole bunch of ESX patches just released here; thanks to Yellow Bricks for pointing that out.. will give the new 3.5 update manager a whirl and report back on what happened! fingers crossed. See – one advantage of having your own test/cheap ESX home server [...]

  Handy article here at VM/ETC

    Microsoft OneNote is my favorite Microsoft product – I’ve used it for a couple of years now and it’s almost totally replaced my need to lug around hardback notepads. I say almost as sometimes I still need to scribble down some diagrams, something that doesn’t work well with OneNote unless you have a [...]

  This looks interesting, uses p2p storage syncing to allow live workloads to be moved between VM Hosts. Would be a very interesting tech, you could build a large VM compute farm with cheap DAS storage without having to invest in “proper” shared storage such as a fibre channel SAN or iSCSI. Considering even a [...]

  Interesting Blog to keep an eye on here http://shippingseven.blogspot.com/ allegedly from an engineer working on the new Windows OS, be good to see what comes out – MS haven’t said very much at all about it.