Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Free VMWare Disaster Recovery Solution Book
Posted by on August 31, 2008
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 & [...]
Problem using Photosynth in Firefox?
Posted by on August 29, 2008
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 [...]
VMWare Workstation 6.5 Release Candidate Build 110068
Posted by on August 28, 2008
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 and
Exchange 2007 Automated Install & Documentation Template Resources
Posted by on August 21, 2008
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 [...]
And you thought your ESX lab at home was big..
Posted by on August 7, 2008
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. write-up Here and here I definitely agree with Chad that they should publish the details of solutions that [...]
Hey, I Broke Photosynth
Posted by on August 3, 2008
Lol, more sites should have error messages like this – this would be far more entertaining (but maybe less useful) than a PSOD or BSOD
