Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Using Outlook 2010 with More than One Exchange Account Crashes Regularly
Posted by on February 24, 2011
I quite liked the idea of a new feature in Outlook 2010, the ability to use more than one Exchange account at a time. People have been asking for this for years and it looked promising, in the past there was a work-around using virtualization but it was very resource intensive for most people’s machines. [...]
Confused by HP Flex10 Design for vSphere
Posted by on February 23, 2011
HP have a very clever 10Gb Ethernet technology called Flex10, which is an evolution of the previous Virtual Connect modules, it allows you to carve a single 10Gb NIC into multiple FlexNICs of varying capacities; this is especially useful if you are looking to deploy vSphere on HP blades. it can be tricky to visualise [...]
Bad News My VCDX Design Defense Experience
Posted by on February 22, 2011
With apologies to all fellow Brits for the US spelling (Google, you know ). Following on from email with my good news… there was a further email with some less positive news.. As some of you know I made a stealth appearance at Partner Exchange in Orlando a week or so ago, I was there [...]
Good News–Passed VCAP4-DCA Exam
Posted by on February 22, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I sat the VCAP4-DCA Exam, I got my results about 14 business days after sitting the exam (it says 10, but I guess the certification team were busy) and I’m pleased to say I passed with a reasonable score. I liked this exam, like the VI3 version it’s a live-lab [...]
Are Social Networks are Manipulating the Future?
Posted by on February 18, 2011
I’ve noticed a growing trend recently, I use LinkedIn to keep track of people I meet via work and it’s quite handy (and my organic memory is pretty useless at this) I also use Twitter to keep an eye out on what’s going on in my professional world as a lot of people use [...]
Download the Full VMware Documentation Set with one Script
Posted by on February 15, 2011
I was pointed at a handy utility by a colleague at VMware, Xtravirt have a small DOS batch script that will download all of the current VMware documentation in .PDF format from VMware.com This is very handy if you are studying for your VCAP exams or doing some consulting with customers as you can take [...]
Kindle 3 Rocks
Posted by on February 15, 2011
I recently received an Amazon Kindle 3 as a belated leaving present from my old team, which was very kind. I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now and I’ve been very impressed, I have been a long-term die-hard dead-tree book fan and have a lot of tech-books at home so I didn’t [...]
vSphere Host cannot enter Standby mode using DPM and WoL
Posted by on February 10, 2011
I encountered this error in my lab recently, I previously wrote about how I was able to use DPM in my home lab, I’ve recently re-built it into a different configuration but found that I was no longer able to use just Wake on LAN (WoL) to put idle cluster hosts into standby. I [...]
Cannot Access Shared Folder vmware-host Shared Folders My Desktop
Posted by on February 8, 2011
I encountered this error when a Windows 7 VM running under Fusion logs on, VM tools is mapping a drive to your OS X home directory and results in the following Windows error message Cannot Access Shared Folder \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\My Desktop I hit this error after I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my [...]
VoxSciences no longer offering mobile phone billing
Posted by on February 4, 2011
I have been a long-term fan of speech to text voicemail systems – originally with the now defunct SpinVox and latterly with VoxSci. When I logged on to my account today to change some settings I saw a notice that they would no longer be offering phone based billing (whereby the charge you for the [...]
