Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Mmm, Should I cancel, or should I cancel?
Posted by on May 30, 2008
You see, it’s all about the choices with Vista
Free SAN for your Home/Work ESX Lab
Posted by on May 25, 2008
VM/Etc have posted an excellent article about a free iSCSI SAN VM appliance that you can download from Xtravirt it uses replication between 2 ESX hosts to allow you to configure DRS/HA etc. Excellent, I’m going to procure another cheap ESX host in the next couple of weeks so will post back on my [...]
Microsoft Blogger on Licencing
Posted by on May 24, 2008
This is a great blog, from one of the licencing managers at Microsoft – Emma has made a good start on providing easy to understand articles on MS licencing in bite sized chunks. It’s not everyone’s favourite topic, but we all have to do it Useful for virtualisation people as there’s a whole section [...]
A Closer look at Green IT and Microsoft’s new Container Data Centre in Chicago
Posted by on May 24, 2008
Link here – good visualisation about 10mins in of how their new Chicago data centre is laid out internally. With virtualisation breaking the traditional hardware/OS ties; this is becoming an increasingly appealing way of managing commodity compute grid resources for large organisations. Mike makes some good points about the de-comissioning of servers on a [...]
SpinVox: The Future of Voicemail
Posted by on May 20, 2008
SpinVox is changing the game for busy people.. I don’t know about you but I tend to treat my mobile (USA:cellphone) phone as my personal contact device, in that I use it to manage both my inbound and outbound communications and plug that into my daily work/life workflow. Because I travel about a lot [...]
Running ESX 3.5 and 3i Under VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta Build 91182
Posted by on May 18, 2008
Following on from my earlier post I upgraded my installation to the new build of 6.5. it un-installed the old build and re-installed the latest without a problem, took about 30mins and required a reboot of the host OS. All my previously suspended XP/2003 VM’s resumed ok without a restart but needed an upgrade [...]
New VMWare Workstation 6.5 Build(s) and ability to run ESX 3.5
Posted by on May 18, 2008
As a result of this post from Eric Sloof I note there is a new build of Workstation 6.5 available; I hadn’t noticed this as I haven’t had much time to follow the forums and my beta/RC (as used in this post and installed here is build 84113) hasn’t notified me there is a [...]
Walking between London Underground Stations
Posted by on May 15, 2008
Slightly off-topic from my usual posts, but I had to link to this article that Annie Mole links to, which is a very useful map for anyone who lives or works in central London – it shows the actual walking distance between zone 1 tube stations. I often get off the tube and walk [...]
Deleting a Virtual Machine from Virtual Center and Disk
Posted by on May 14, 2008
If you deploy your VM’s from a master image using Virtual Center’s Deploy from template functionality (below). When you try and delete a virtual machine you’ve created from disk You get the following prompt Are you sure you want to delete this VM and it’s associated base disk? Please note if other VMs [...]
Solid Sate SAN, Storage vMotion and VMWare – HSM for your VMs
Posted by on May 13, 2008
You’ve been able to buy solid state SAN technology like the Tera-RAMSAN from TMS which gives you up to 1Tb of storage, presented over 4Gb/s fibre channel or Infiniband @10Gb/s… with the cost of flash storage dropping its going to soon fall in to the realms of affordability (from memory a year ago 1Tb [...]
