March 27, 2008 7:24 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherFor once a blog post that as nothing to do with Virtualization or VMware! This one will be of interest to my former Dutch students and anyone interested in climate change. I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time in the Netherlands/Holland in recent years – and my iTunes downloaded this...
March 21, 2008 10:22 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherMy fellow blogger, David Marshall – has an interesting video on his VMblog.com website of how there are still problems with Microsoft Hyper-V “Quick Migrate” feature. Quick Migrate is supposed to rival VMware’s VMotion. The video highlights lost ping packets, network copy failures and...
March 18, 2008 11:49 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
vCenterThose of use who attended the VMworld Europe event in Canne, will tell you that one of the labs sessions was about using PowerShell (from Microsoft) to control VMs. This powershell has now been released as beta which is free to download:
March 17, 2008 8:30 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
vCenterBy now you have probably heard of Vi Client plug-in that puts a GUI front-end to the SVMotion command. The site has a number of Vi Plugins and programming guide for those who wish to write their own plug-ins
March 9, 2008 11:26 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherWell, not so much confused as middle irritated by the recent spate of product renaming by Citrix. I’ve been around in Citrix for sometime – and have seen this happen from WinFrame=MetaFrame=Presentation Server=XenApp process. OK, well, marketing knobs like product rebranding it gives them a new...
March 7, 2008 4:25 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherI recently did a webcast on the subject of storage sponsored by Veeam (creators of the popular Veeam Reporter, Backup, Monitor, FastSCP products). I’m working on a...
March 6, 2008 11:54 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherI still subscribe to windowsitpro email newsletter going back to when I was Microsoft Certified Trainer, many moons ago. Security Update have an interesting article about the poor server uptimes of Windows Servers – caused mainly by security patches… Why does this interest me. Well, two things...
March 2, 2008 8:25 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
ESX“SVMotion is a VI 2.5 client plugin (the FIRST released, third-party plugin in fact) that extends the client’s functionality by providing an integrated, graphical tool that can be used to invoke storage VMotion (SVMotion) operations. This plugin is not supported by VMware. In fact, the...
