April 22, 2008 5:05 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherIf you follow the blogs, there has been an extensive debate about VMotion Vs QuickMigrate. In a classic case of moving the goal posts Microsoft has responded on their virtualization blog.
April 19, 2008 2:10 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
VDIWell, you have seen NetApp do this – creating many VDI VMs very rapidly together with a pre-dedupe process – using Thin Provisioning Storage
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgziAwYfh4A
Additionally, you can also sign up for a...
April 15, 2008 1:28 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
ESXTwo guys on my course this week in Utrecht have put me on to an interesting doc from Cisco about networking in ESX. In some places its more interesting/informative than VMware’s own documentation – especially if you use Cisco hardware!
Link:
April 12, 2008 11:48 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
vCenterVMware has release an update thrilling entitled Update 1. Think like DefCon 1 [JOKE]
Highights include:
- HA for ESX3i
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet/Jumbo Frame Support for the Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
- 32/64-bit Support for MSCS
- Boot from SAN...
April 10, 2008 9:33 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
ESXPeter Rudolf from Mightcare.de has emailed me to let me know that they have a free tool to download. It’s called MCS Storageview and it shows you the size of virtual disks and how much free space you have available in them.
April 10, 2008 8:57 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherEric Sloof and I (fellow VCI’s) are attending the first VDM course for instructors in Frimley, Surrey – this week. Eric dragged me to one side to get my first impressions on VDM, and cornered me about the book as well!
April 7, 2008 8:44 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherMike D has an interesting two part analysis – or compare and contast of MS “Quick Migrate” against VMware VMotion.
“There has been a lot of talk recently about why Quick Migration with Microsoft’s Hyper-V drops connections when it simply uses Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) to...
April 3, 2008 1:12 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
Other[OK, so you spotted my deliberate mistake - I meant North Carolina, not South Carolina...]
For the last two weeks – I’ve been upto two main things. Playing with Site Recovery Manager Beta, and prep’ing the new training course on VMware’s Virtual Desktop Manager. Just before I arrived...
April 1, 2008 10:01 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixAfter sometime Citrix has released its version of Xen. I think what’s very interesting is Citrix licensing model. They have gone for a per-server approach, rather than a per-socket as favoured by VMware and Microsoft. XenServer starts at $600 per server for an annual license, and $900 per server...
