Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Work
New Home Lab Design
Posted by on April 2, 2009
I have had a lab/test setup at home for over 15 years now, it’s proven invaluable to keep my skills up to date and help me with study towards the various certifications I’ve had to pass for work, plus I’m a geek at heart and I love this stuff over the years it’s grown [...]
And so begins 2009..
Posted by on January 5, 2009
Ok, well it was last week apologies for the lack of postings in the last month which was due to a mix of well-earnt holiday and some very busy periods of work in the December run-down. Anyways, I would like to wish all vinf.net readers a belated happy new year; I’ve been amazed at [...]
Excellent Set of Resources for VMWare HA
Posted by on July 15, 2008
Scott and Chad have a good set of consolidated notes here if you find yourself needing to configure VMWare HA, with all the gotcha’s etc.
Free EMC Celerra for your Home/Lab
Posted by on July 9, 2008
Virtualgeek has an interesting post here about a freely downloadable VM version of their Celerra product, including an HA version. This is an excellent idea for testing and lab setups, and a powerful tool in your VM Lab arsenal alongside other offerings like Xtravirt Virtual SAN and OpenFiler. I’ve been saying for a while [...]
PSOD – Purple Screen of Death
Posted by on July 8, 2008
Just incase you ever wondered what it looks like here is a screendump.. this is the VMWare equivalent of Microsoft’s BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) I got this whilst running ESX 3.5 under VMWare Workstation 6.5 build 99530, it happened because I was trying to boot my ESX installation from a SCSI hard disk – [...]
Handy Reference Chart for Microsoft Server Application Licences
Posted by on July 2, 2008
Taken from a download on the Microsoft Partner Licencing Specialist site, the following diagram makes for a useful quick reference chart for what licencing options are applicable to the big MS Server apps – far easier than having to check the product sites and documentation individually if you are trying to spec something up. [...]
Certified..
Posted by on July 1, 2008
I had my 2nd attempt at the VMWare FastTrack course last week (the 1st attempt was cut short due to power problems, and I’ve only just managed to find the time to reschedule). The course went ok, the 1st 2 days were a bit dull as I’d already sat through them once; the course [...]
Virtualization – the key to delivering "cloud based architecture" NOW.
Posted by on June 23, 2008
There is a lot of talk about delivering cloud or elastic computing platforms, a lot of CxO’s are taking this all in and nodding enthusiastically, they can see the benefits.. so make it happen!….yesterday. Moving your services to the cloud, isn’t always about giving your apps and data to Google, Amazon or Microsoft. You [...]
VMWare/Cisco Switching Integration
Posted by on June 21, 2008
As noted here there is a doc that has been jointly produced between VMWare and Cisco which has all the details required for integrating VI virtual switches with physical switching. Especially handy if you need to work with networking teams to make sure things are configured correctly to allow failover properly between redundant switches/fabrics [...]
Free SAN for your Home/Work ESX Lab
Posted by on May 25, 2008
VM/Etc have posted an excellent article about a free iSCSI SAN VM appliance that you can download from Xtravirt it uses replication between 2 ESX hosts to allow you to configure DRS/HA etc. Excellent, I’m going to procure another cheap ESX host in the next couple of weeks so will post back on my [...]
