VMWare have made an excellent free book available online here. it goes into a lot of detail around the various DR scenarios that you can use VMWare for; even P2V DR and has lots of example configurations with various vendor’s server & storage equipment.
Some really good technical documentation coming out of VMWare & it’s partners recently like the Cisco doc.
I’ve been playing with Photosynth since the first demo was available on the web; it’s a very cool visualisation project from Microsoft Live Labs (info here) and it’s recently gone ‘live’.
It also works under Firefox which is great as I’m a keen FF user, but since the recent updates I’ve not been able to use it under FF, it kept looping round and asking me to install the plug-in.
I also noted that the version I downloaded earlier in the week was 0.2Mb smaller than the build I downloaded today, so assume there have been some bugfixes or a bad build.
After some fiddling, this turned out to be because I had an older version of the plug-in which must have had some problem, I had to disable the older version and it then ran fine, steps to do so are below;
And choose to disable the older version of the plug-in (1.1.0.602) leaving 1.1.10683 enabled.
Then try again, no restart required (in my case anyway) and it works perfectly
Hope that helps someone else.
There is a new build available for VMWare Workstation, I’ve installed it on my Vista laptop; definitley seems a lot faster and unity is pretty slick now at screen refreshes.
Flawless uninstall/reinstall as per usual VMWare standards… it’s almost there!
Unity icon has now changed to a rather nasty pinkish colour 
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The Exchange team Blog (EHLO) has a pointer to some good resources for building an automated Exchange 2007 installation here and here
it also has some templates for your server build documentation for Exchange servers, always better to start with something than start from scratch!
Automation is one of those great things in Microsoft products, almost all of the products support automated installation, but often unless you are setting up hundreds of them the time invested to get it up and working far exceeds the time it would take to deploy so any pre-build resources and guides are an excellent idea.
Install automation can ensure you have repeatable results - this is especially handy where you are factoring in a non-P2V disaster recovery situation or where you have labs/demo environments or are trusting local IT staff to deploy and manage enterprise applications in a distributed environment.
Chad has an interesting article and set of photos here about the joint Cisco/EMC/VMWare lab they maintain to test v.large implementations.
Excellent stuff, makes any of my labs pale into insignificance, especially my garage geek temple.
I definitely agree with Chad that they should publish the details of solutions that didn’t scale too well as well as those that did; if only for the allies (EMC, VMWare, Cisco) to get feedback on if the market wants those kind of solutions that didn’t work; or at least to show where there is room for improvement to focus dev/R&D effort - but validated.
11/8 Links fixed
Lol, more sites should have error messages like this - this would be far more entertaining (but maybe less useful) than a PSOD or BSOD
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