By admin | November 27, 2008
This one seems to have slipped by like a Vaseline coated ninja. Microsoft have released the long awaited version 2.0 of their Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (jokes ppl, jokes).
Seriously though, what impresses me the most about this tool is it’s size, which is only a few MB – it’s little more than a bunch [...]
By admin | November 26, 2008
I’ve got a cake. It’s my favourite variety, caramel mud. As much as I’d like to eat the whole cake myself, in a shameless attempt to increase my blog audience I’m going to eat half and give half to the first person to email me after reading this post*.
Question: How much cake is left [...]
By admin | November 20, 2008
Unfortunately I couldn’t break the news when I heard it as I was at work (no way I’m blogging from there, my boss reads this – hi Mark ), but Symantec has updated the original KB article to something much, much more reasonable (although it seems to be offline at the minute).
No company is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Miscellaneous, VMware |
By admin | November 18, 2008
Make sure you’re sitting down before reading this Symantec KB article which is only 1 month old and clearly states they do _not_ support any current version of their product on ESX if Vmotion is enabled. No, it’s not a joke.
It’s a _fucking_ joke. Symantec have essentially pulled together a list of random issues that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ESX, ESXi, VMware |
By admin | November 17, 2008
I’ve been a bit quiet of late, mainly due to the digestion of Microsoft’s PDC 2008 content (what a great idea to provide the content for free after the conference – VMware could take a leaf out of that book). I meant to post this up yesterday as another SAAAP installment but missed the deadline… [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ESXi, Philosophy, SAAAP |
By admin | November 9, 2008
One of the things that will be interesting to observe as the cloud matures will the influence the internal and external clouds will have on each on each other.
To this end, I think Microsoft have benefited from years of experience with the web hosting industry, and as a result have completely nailed the correct approach [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged SAAAP |