Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Support for Virtualized OS/Applications – an Open Debate..
Posted by on February 21, 2008
Martin’s post here prompted me to blog something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. Virtualization projects and services are cool; we all understand the advantages in power/cooling and the flexibility it can bring to our infrastructures. But what about support, if you are a service provider (internal or outsourcing) you normally need [...]
P2V Backup & Disaster Recovery
Posted by on February 20, 2008
There is a new site here (disclaimer: it does seem to be promoting a commercial service, but has some useful information that has been put into the public domain); describing some methods to roll your own P2V backup approach; I’ve not read in detail yet; but looks like Frane Borozan has solved some of [...]
Windows Server 2008 Posters..
Posted by on February 20, 2008
Along the same lines as the handy Exchange 2007 reference posters I blogged about a while ago; there are now similar offerings for Windows Server 2008. These are quite handy, and I’m all for visual aids Download them here. Thanks to Brett for the handy linkage
/CONSOLE switch Goes away in Windows 2008/Vista SP1/XPsp3 versions of MSTSC.EXE
Posted by on February 18, 2008
Post here on the terminal services team blog, about why they’ve changed this switch to /ADMIN in Windows 2008/Vista SP1/XPSP3. This is the first I’ve heard of it, not a huge issue but I can see a potential problem where the /console switch is ignored, again not huge but a bit of an annoyance [...]
Virtual Centre Plug-in Repository
Posted by on February 18, 2008
Handy site here, where you can share plug-ins for Virtual Centre 2.5; I can already see a couple of useful ones (Storage VMotion and Add Port Groups). This could be the start of a really useful community of user-contributed plug-ins. Nice. Thanks to Scott
More Useful Things You Can Do With ImageX
Posted by on February 12, 2008
James O’Neil has a good post here – an example of how he used ImageX to quickly build and maintain his own vista system image with his typical apps. Also handy for reference as he shows how to split very large images across multiple CDs using the /split switch.
Make Your own Offline Windows Update CD/DVD
Posted by on February 12, 2008
What a handy tool; if you download the app you can select which Microsoft OS/Applications you need patches for and it will download them all via the Windows online catalog to a source directory and then compile a script to auto install them all – it will even generate a .ISO file and handle dependencies [...]
Mmmm, Big, Really Big Cisco Switches
Posted by on February 11, 2008
Over here and here like the idea of combining FC and Ethernet in one chassis; They’re not cheap though, more info and viewpoint here and spec here looks to be the next step up from 6500 series catalyst. Cool
Hot-Swap Datacentres
Posted by on February 11, 2008
There’s an interesting post over on Forrester research blog by James Staten. he’s talking some more about data centres in a container; making the data centre the FRU rather than a server or server components (Disk, PSU etc.). This isn’t a new idea but it I’m sure the economics of scale currently mean this [...]
