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

(Apologies to fellow Brits for the spelling of “center/centre”, it bugs me too! but that’s the product name, spelling and all – plus it helps our worldwide friends who are coming in via Google) Just incase you are interested here are the steps to do so. I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition “Gold” VM [...]

    Obviously the Asus is significantly cheaper and the the screen is annoyingly small – interesting review here

  …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.

    Mmmm, interesting. They’re aiming for virtualizing much more than just the OS.. VMWare obviously realise the Hypervizor game is coming to an end where ESX will be a free/commodity release and all the add-ons/management will make the money. This makes an interesting foray into application level virtualization – more anlysis here. Another other [...]