Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Groove Templates
Posted by on March 27, 2008
Eileen Brown has a post here with some links to new Groove templates here.
I really like Groove and but I think I could do a lot more with it once I figure out what all the different bits work!
Liking the idea of the RFP/RFI tracker – its so hard to manage that stuff with lots of people involved and Sharepoint just doesn’t cut it for me.
How to Monitor VMWare ESX Servers from Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM)
Posted by on March 26, 2008
How to Overlay Multiple Calendars in Outlook 2007
Posted by on March 25, 2008
This is a really useful feature; I didn’t realise you could do this (until I had a need to do so, thanks Google!); makes it much easier to look and manage multiple calendars (or people’s shared calendars).
Linky here
Shame the UI for this isn’t particularly obvious, or at least maybe I’m blind but the button is quite small 🙂
Installing Windows Vista SP1
Posted by on March 23, 2008
About to install Windows Vista SP1 on my Dell D620 Laptop, if I don’t report back for a while it’s all gone horribly wrong!
Interesting to note it makes sure you have your laptop plugged into the mains before it will let you continue.
I downloaded it here 434Mb download, interesting to note the filename Windows6.0-KB936330-X86-wave0.exe be interesting to see what the wave0 bit means with later releases.
I’ve not had any real problems with SP0, but might as well put it on; few colleagues reporting better speed… but think my disk definitely needs deranging anyway so thats probably more relevant.
Wish me luck!
Hyper V Release Candidate is Available Today
Posted by on March 19, 2008
I’m at the Windows 2008 Launch event in the Birmingham, UK today. It has just been exclusively announced that the Hyper V Release Candidate is available for download from 5pm (UK time) Today, 19th March.
Go download and try it out… full RTM is still promised 180 days from the Feb RTM release of Windows 2008 which I blogged about here
Useful Document for getting your Network Teams up to Speed with VMWare and it’s Virtual Networking
Posted by on March 18, 2008
Doc from Cisco Here.
More Cheap ESX Servers
Posted by on March 14, 2008
Techhead has posted a nice article on his ML110 ESX test server, nice alternative to my D530 approach, he’s got a few more disks than I have.
Cisco ASR is Virtual to the Core, all 40 of them!
Posted by on March 14, 2008
Interesting article here on how Cisco have made heavy use of virtualization within their new ASR series router platform, Linux underneath and 40 core CPUs!
This type of approach does make me wonder if we will get to the stage of running traditional “network” and “storage” services as VM’s under a shared hypervisor with traditional “servers”.. totally removing the dependency on dedicated or expensive single-vendor hardware.
Commodity server blade platforms like the HP or Sun blade systems are so powerful these days, with flexible interconnect/expansion options this type of approach makes a lot of sense to me and is totally flexible.
Maybe one day it will go the other way and all your Windows boxen will run inside a Cisco NX7000 lol!
On reflection maybe all those companies have too much of a vested interest in vendor lock-in and hardware sales to make this a reality!
Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between 