Brian Madden made an interesting post today, predicting the end for Citrix XenServer as we know it.
I’m not so sure about the disappearance of Xen from the landscape altogether, but on the disappearance of Citrix XenServer I agree 100%.
I think there’s one more aspect worth mentioning that he doesn’t touch on… the fact that 99.999% [...]
Removing invalid datastores from the VirtualCenter database (in 2.0.x at least) is a bit of a pain… y’know, the ones that don’t actually surface in the UI but you know are there because you get a “duplicate name” style error when adding a new datastore.
Manually editing the VirtualCenter database should never be taken lightly, and [...]
Yes, it’s more Sunday evening than afternoon but I’m gonna squeeze this one in under the guise of another installment of Sunday Afternoon Architecture And Philosophy.
With the release of Hyper-V 1.0, I got to thinking… why wouldn’t you put it on every x64 physical box in the enterprise? Theoretically, the parent partition should incur no [...]
Well it’s all over the web, and I generally try not to report on stuff that everyone else does but I’m making an exception this time… more so I can remember the date than anything else
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To be fair to Citrix, I’ll start by saying that this appears to be a Microsoft bug. But that doesn’t change the magnitude of what can only be described as a monumental clusterfuck – it doesn’t matter who’s at fault, the problem exists today and will exist in the forseeable future unless we as Citrix [...]
Quite a few things of note happened while I was away, but one thing that didn’t seem to be widely reported was the launch of Chad Sakac’s blog. Chad has bolted from the gate with some great posts which I won’t bother linking because you should just hit his blog and read everything.
I also owe [...]
Oh and I’m back from holidays
