Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: July 2008
vinf.net at 50k Hits and 8 Months.
Posted by on July 27, 2008
Well over the weekend this blog turned over 50,000 visits since it started in November 2007 whilst I was on a break at Briforum 2007 in Amsterdam, so lots of thanks to everyone who has been reading, this blog is currently averaging 500 views/day which considering I just started it as a repository for [...]
Vista Mobility Centre
Posted by on July 27, 2008
Ironically, I’d never actually seen this screen before.. Windows Key – X and it pops up the following screen so I can get one place to find the Dell extensions and the MS normal control panel applets in one place that are relevant to “mobility”. Thanks to James O’Neil‘s post on where Microsoft went [...]
VMWare aims for the Clouds
Posted by on July 26, 2008
Interesting post by Dave Ohara here; looks like VMWare are gearing up for some big cloud-related product announcements at VMWorld in September. This folds nicely into my previous post about how VMWare can enable you to build your own clouds Looking forward to September.
ESX3i for Free
Posted by on July 24, 2008
VMWare ESXi (aka ESX 3i) is about to be available free, pricing kicks in 28th July and the attached doc shows an overview of the features in each edition as you step up. Basic principal is you can start with ESX3i for free (rather than full ESX @$1k), then add licence keys to enable [...]
Excellent Set of Resources for VMWare HA
Posted by on July 15, 2008
Scott and Chad have a good set of consolidated notes here if you find yourself needing to configure VMWare HA, with all the gotcha’s etc.
Free EMC Celerra for your Home/Lab
Posted by on July 9, 2008
Virtualgeek has an interesting post here about a freely downloadable VM version of their Celerra product, including an HA version. This is an excellent idea for testing and lab setups, and a powerful tool in your VM Lab arsenal alongside other offerings like Xtravirt Virtual SAN and OpenFiler. I’ve been saying for a while [...]
PSOD – Purple Screen of Death
Posted by on July 8, 2008
Just incase you ever wondered what it looks like here is a screendump.. this is the VMWare equivalent of Microsoft’s BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) I got this whilst running ESX 3.5 under VMWare Workstation 6.5 build 99530, it happened because I was trying to boot my ESX installation from a SCSI hard disk – [...]
Funky USB Device Entries After Using VM Converter..
Posted by on July 6, 2008
I’ve noticed this a couple of times, if you P2V a VM from VM Workstation to ESX using VM Converter – it brings across a virtual USB device which isn’t supported by ESX.. if you look at the properties you get the following amusing entries.. Now, I wish I really did have a funky [...]
VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta 2 – my experiences
Posted by on July 3, 2008
I’ve installed the updated build of 6.5 as Eric discussed here; first impressions Unity works much, much better – less screen jitter and flashes of guest desktop – performance definitely improved too and makes my multi Outlook setup much nicer to use. Also noted that the unity icon has changed colour from red to [...]
Handy Reference Chart for Microsoft Server Application Licences
Posted by on July 2, 2008
Taken from a download on the Microsoft Partner Licencing Specialist site, the following diagram makes for a useful quick reference chart for what licencing options are applicable to the big MS Server apps – far easier than having to check the product sites and documentation individually if you are trying to spec something up. [...]
