Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Augmented Reality TFTLondon
Posted by on April 29, 2010
I attended another session of The Fantastic Tavern London (#TFTLondon) this evening hosted by Matt Bagwell and Michelle Flynn – this evening’s event was centred around ‘realities’ and specifically augmented reality. My post on the previous TFT London is available here; as you’ll see from that post Augmented Realty was voted as a hot [...]
Where Next for VMware Workstation?
Posted by on April 28, 2010
I love VMware Workstation, I have used it since about 1999 when I was first introduced to virtualization and it totally revolutionised the way I did my home and work lab study and later production systems. Since then it has always introduced new features with every version that seemed to be back-ported into the [...]
Hardware Vendors… release the emulators to the masses PLEASE!!
Posted by on April 26, 2010
If you are a consultant or are an end-user trying to teach/learn new technology it’s not easy to constantly have access to lab and demo kit, most vendors can lend you evaluation hardware for your lab but there is generally a finite supply and you don’t have it for long – if you are [...]
London VMware User Group – 6th May
Posted by on April 21, 2010
The next VMware User group meeting (VMUG) has been announced, I’ll be presenting on virtualizing terminal server workloads, which is a presentation based on some recent work I have undertaken with a customer. It’s also great to see Alan back for another PowerShell session – this is definitely worth attending – register now if [...]
Discount Code for BriForum
Posted by on April 19, 2010
As you may have seen before I am giving a session at BriForum in Chicago around low-cost virtual lab environments using a variant of my vT.A.R.D.I.S demo system with as many live demos as possible. I have a $200 discount code available for my readers, if you want to take advantage of this offer [...]
Streaming Install of Office 2010 Beta
Posted by on April 16, 2010
This is clever, Microsoft are going to offer a version of Office 2010 that you can install on demand using the App-V technology that they acquired from Softricity a few years ago. Read the link to the Office 2010 team blog here and you can try the beta for yourself here [...]
Latest HP Firmware Maintenance CD v9
Posted by on April 15, 2010
I can never seem to find these via the HP.com page, and Google eventually manages to find the best link so I have blogged this as much for my own reference as your use. HP, how about it shows up properly in the site search? Here are the details, hot of the {.ISO} press.. [...]
Installing Windows 7 from a USB Flash Drive and Multi-Boot from VHD
Posted by on April 14, 2010
This is a useful tool which I haven’t come across before – Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool – it will create a bootable USB flash drive which you can use to install Windows 7 Combine this with a boot from .VHD setup and you have a very flexible multi-boot solution, it also seems to [...]
Attending #TechFieldDay if you aren’t at #TechFieldDay
Posted by on April 9, 2010
Steve Foskett of GestaltIT is currently running an invite-only event for bloggers with presentations from companies like vKernel, EMC, Cisco and HP in Boston. I wasn’t lucky enough to be invited but rest assured there is already a strong contingent of the London Simons present on-site (Seagrave and Long). You can follow the attendees [...]
Installing vCenter on Windows 2008 R2 x64 – There is No DSN which can be used
Posted by on April 5, 2010
It’s well documented that if you want to install vCenter on an x64 Windows 2008 OS you need to create a 32-bit DSN rather than he normal x64 DSN, Jason has a post on this over at his site. However – on a clean install of Windows 2008 R2 x64 you don’t get the [...]
