Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Geeky
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
Funky USB Device Entries After Using VM Converter..
Posted by on July 6, 2008
I’ve noticed this a couple of times, if you P2V a VM from VM Workstation to ESX using VM Converter – it brings across a virtual USB device which isn’t supported by ESX.. if you look at the properties you get the following amusing entries.. Now, I wish I really did have a funky [...]
A Closer look at Green IT and Microsoft’s new Container Data Centre in Chicago
Posted by on May 24, 2008
Link here – good visualisation about 10mins in of how their new Chicago data centre is laid out internally. With virtualisation breaking the traditional hardware/OS ties; this is becoming an increasingly appealing way of managing commodity compute grid resources for large organisations. Mike makes some good points about the de-comissioning of servers on a [...]
SpinVox: The Future of Voicemail
Posted by on May 20, 2008
SpinVox is changing the game for busy people.. I don’t know about you but I tend to treat my mobile (USA:cellphone) phone as my personal contact device, in that I use it to manage both my inbound and outbound communications and plug that into my daily work/life workflow. Because I travel about a lot [...]
Running ESX 3.5 and 3i Under VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta Build 91182
Posted by on May 18, 2008
Following on from my earlier post I upgraded my installation to the new build of 6.5. it un-installed the old build and re-installed the latest without a problem, took about 30mins and required a reboot of the host OS. All my previously suspended XP/2003 VM’s resumed ok without a restart but needed an upgrade [...]
Universal Power Supply for all your Electronics
Posted by on May 12, 2008
Engadget has a write up of a great new idea here, a universal and intelligent power brick from Green Plug that is capable of charging devices and shutting down when complete to save the planet, as well as display how much power is/has been consumed. it’s an excellent and long overdue idea; unfortunately it [...]
VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta – Run Multiple Copies of Outlook/Exchange via Unity
Posted by on April 30, 2008
I use a single laptop for my day-day use, it has all the stuff i need, I run Vista and Office 2007, for our corporate mail we use Exchange like everyone else and I use Outlook Cached Mode to work online/offline.. My own personal email is also an Exchange mailbox – provided by fasthosts [...]
Opening a URL in Internet Explorer when Firefox is your default Web Browser
Posted by on April 3, 2008
I use Firefox for 99% of my Internet activities, however there are still some web sites and applications that won’t work fully (or at all) within Firefox. Normally I use the IETab extension to render particular tabs within Firefox using the IE render engine.. this allows all my browsing to stay within one tabbed [...]
