By admin | October 30, 2008
It seems the ESX 3.5 Update 3 release is imminent, as per some recent updates to the VMware website (screeny below) Wonder if we’ll get any timebomb action this time
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ESX, ESXi, VMware |
By admin | October 26, 2008
… and I’m not just talking about London. The topic of cloud or liquid or utility compute is perfectly suited for an edition of Sunday Afternoon Architecture & Philosophy. Note that I said compute there. Indeed the cloud has many other components, but infrastructure guys like me will mainly be concerned with compute. And maybe [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged SAAAP |
By admin | October 23, 2008
It seems the VirtualCenter upgrade process is not getting any better. I can’t for the life of me understand how bugs like this got through with the Update 2 release, but they did and are one of the primary drivers for my company to roll out Update 3 asap (that and the security fixes). But [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Database, VirtualCenter, VMware |
By admin | October 22, 2008
Sun are keeping suspiciously quiet regarding their virtualisation offerings, both present and future, and you know what they say about the quiet ones. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of material out there tying the various pieces of their puzzle together, and it’s entirely possible this is intended to keep everyone’s focus on VMware [...]
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By admin | October 21, 2008
You read it here first… well, second besides the actual announcement. I’ll definitely be checking it out soon as it’s available for end users! Update: The eval is available for download already!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Microsoft, SCVMM |
By admin | October 14, 2008
I’ll start (as I often do with negatively titled posts) by saying that I love HP kit. No I’m not being sarcastic, back when I was a support guy I actually resigned from a place because they were going to switch their server vendor of choice away from HP. But for fucks sake, this BL495c [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Hardware, HP, VMware |