Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: December 2009
vT.A.R.D.I.S – 10 ESXi node cluster on a trolley as demonstrated at London VMUG
Posted by on December 17, 2009
I recently presented a session at the London VMware User Group meeting about home labs, this post is a follow-up with the slides I used and some more details on the configuration. The kit I demo’d has affectionately been named the the vT.A.R.D.I.S which stands for Trolley Attached Random Datacentre of Inexpensive Servers or [...]
OWA 503 Service Unavailable following 973917 update
Posted by on December 17, 2009
I’ve seen a couple of instances of this in the last week where previously working Exchange 2003 servers suddenly stop serving Outlook Web Access (OWA) Requests overnight Investigating the eventlog shows the following entry which corresponds with stopped application pools in IIS Manager; Event Type: Error Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: [...]
Cloud Camp London (21st Jan 2010) now open for registrations
Posted by on December 16, 2009
You can register for the next Cloudcamp London on the 21st Jan 2010 at this link If you don’t know what cloudcamp is about – check out one of my previous posts if you are available I recommend it.
The GeekCabin
Posted by on December 15, 2009
I am currently building a new home office/lab/cave for my computer habit and have been maintaining a separate blog with all of the details – it’s online at http://geekcabin.wordpress.com so please check it out. Don’t worry I’ll still be posting my normal content here and nothing is happening to this blog – but the other [...]
Amazon EC2 boot from EBS
Posted by on December 4, 2009
This is a much wanted feature, I haven’t checked yet – but if this is allowed for Windows instances I can see a whole heap of new use-cases in my work – check it out – this is akin to boot from SAN in a traditional infrastructure and allows for persistent OS images to be [...]
