Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Resources for HP c-class blade and EVA Design for vSphere 4
Posted by on March 30, 2010
I am currently working on a design for a vSphere 4 platform on HP’s EVA SAN and c-class blade chassis. In order to provide flexible network connectivity we are leveraging the new Flex 10 Virtual Connect Modules as well as VC Fibre Channel modules to simplify administration Because finding things on the HP site [...]
HP Virtual Connect Technical Webinar Series
Posted by on March 30, 2010
HP are running a free series of technical webinars around their virtual connect technology, if like me you are trying to get your head around the VC technology, this is for you. Visit the following URL and sign-up, there are a range of free local dial-in numbers for the audio – note, I couldn’t [...]
VMware Licensing for the vCloud..
Posted by on March 29, 2010
I have been involved with VMware’s vCloud programme since it was announced late 2008, I was part of getting involved as one of a handful of partners on the launch-day and I have been doing private cloud work with customers since early 2008. Whilst I was somewhat disappointed that as a smaller partner we [...]
Bring your own Windows license for EC2, but where are Microsoft?
Posted by on March 25, 2010
This is interesting, Amazon have announced a pilot scheme to allow customers with a Microsoft Enterprise agreement to port their Windows licenses to EC2, which they say reduces the average cost of a Windows EC2 instance by up to 41% (interesting to see where the infrastructure/software cost split is – maybe this is why [...]
Subscribe to VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast in iTunes
Posted by on March 16, 2010
I have been listening to some of the recent VMware communities roundtable podcasts, they are great for getting up to date with things in the car or on the train – but I could never find them via iTunes so I could automatically subscribe to it so was downloading via the TalkShoe page. Fear [...]
Free Windows Crash Dump Analysis and Performance Analysis Session from the WSUG in London
Posted by on March 9, 2010
The Windows Server User Group have announced another free evening session during the UK Tech Days week in London. Blurb pasted from the WSUG site below; The [WSUG] Windows Server User Group has the pleasure of hosting Dan Pearson, from David Solomon’s Expert Seminars, http://www.solsem.com/ Dan is in London teaching the week of TechDays [...]
Windows Server User Group London – BranchCache and W2k8 R2 Migration
Posted by on March 3, 2010
The Windows Server User Group are holding a talk on the evening of April 12th at Microsoft’s London offices near Victoria. This event compliments Microsoft’s tech-days week which I previously mentioned here. The agenda is as follows and you can register here BranchCache (Deep Dive) BranchCache is a new Feature in Windows Server 2008 [...]
With the move to ESXi is NFS becoming more useful than VMFS?
Posted by on March 2, 2010
Now that VMware are moving away from ESX classic (with service console) to the ESXi model I have experienced a couple of issues recently that got me wondering if NFS will be a more appropriate model for VM storage going forward. in recent versions of ESX (3.5 and 4) NFS has moved away from [...]
