I can’t tell you how pleased I was to see VMware _finally_ publish some data on a more realistic XenApp scenario than they have previously. Back in the days they used to push a single vCPU for Terminal Servers argument, which as any Citrix guy will know is sub-optimal in more than a few aspects [...]
After having a look around the new VI Toolkit release today, and the accompanying videos and documentation, I am convinced Carter will be hailed as a new God by VI admins the world over. I mean, even Boche has stated this release may be enough to move his lazy ass into finally learning the ways [...]
The long awaited version 1.5 of the VI Toolkit has finally GA’ed, as Carter announced in the wee hours of this morning (2:30AM… I always wondered if Carter was a robot sent from the future, hopefuly not to destroy us all though).
Anyway ’nuff said, I’m gonna go get it now!
Back… caught u lookin for the same thing. It’s a new thing, check out this… oh no wait. It ain’t a new thing, it’s just another Sunday Arvo Architecture And Philoshopy post. This time I’m going to focus on a long time thorn in many of our sides – the myth of infrastructure resource contention.
This [...]
Funny thing, nature. As the Tao te Ching says, “when beauty is abstracted, then ugliness has been implied.” That is, for something to be considered “beautiful”, there must be something else considered “ugly”. And so too, there cannot be a “vExpert” without a “vIdiot”.
So we here at vinternals have taken it upon ourselves once again [...]
In the virtualisation space, one of the often demo’ed features of the upcoming Windows 7 / 2008 R2 is the ability to boot directly from VHD. Microsoft have effectively created a “loopback HBA”, which the bootloader can use to address VHD’s just like a regular disk. This is pretty cool for a whole host of [...]
