Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
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Bloggers, keep an eye on your RSS feed validity
Posted by on May 15, 2010
I had an issue recently where my RSS feeds were not being picked up correctly by the PlanetV12n aggregator, I have never really had any problems in the past but as of a post last week it stopped passing through the article title to the PlanetV12n and thus it’s twitter feed(s). I had not made [...]
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 [...]
Lost access to VM Network and Service Console when Playing with dvSwitch?
Posted by on February 23, 2010
I have been doing some tweaking in my vTARDIS demo lab for the next London VMUG to make it work with the dvSwitch – this all works fine inside the virtualized ESXi hosts however, I tried adding the physical host to the dvSwitch and it blew up and I lost access to my vCenter [...]
The Computing Super-Powers are Aligning Their Stacks
Posted by on February 18, 2010
I noted with interest the rumours today of Cisco ceasing a long-standing partner arrangement with HP (more here); essentially locking HP out of special pricing and insider product information and roadmaps. For a long-time HP have offered Cisco components for their c-class blade chassis like the 3020 catalyst blade switch; to infrastructure people like [...]
Presenting at the London VMware User Group Meeting – Feb 25th
Posted by on February 18, 2010
I am pleased to announce that I’ve been asked to present again at this month’s VMware London user group meeting. I’ll be giving a follow-up on my previous Home Lab : vT.A.R.D.I.S session for which I’ll be bringing a (quieter!) demo environment which I have dubbed vTARDIS:Nano Edition showing how you can build a [...]
Running VMs from a FusionIO Solid State Storage Card and Consumer-grade SSD
Posted by on January 25, 2010
Following on from Eric’s post on running VMs from SSD’s at this page, and my previous experiments at using SSD’s to run VMs I thought I would post up my initial (non-scientific) findings from the FusionIO card that I have been loaned. FusionIO make solid state storage cards that come packaged as PCIe x8 [...]
It’s 2010 Your Usergoup and the blogsphere.. need you!
Posted by on January 4, 2010
Ok – it’s new year’s resolution time – how about this one.. User groups (and blogs, in a less face-face manner) are an excellent way to meet like minded tech people in an informal setting and are a useful way to get information about how other people are doing things and current real-world trends/best [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
