Monthly Archives: February 2009

Back to the Salt Mines…

After a crazy week in Cannes, it’s back to London and the regular job for me. Many other bloggers have done an excellent job of reporting on the events of VMworld Europe 2009, I won’t bother re-hashing anything on here – just check out any of the links on my blogroll.
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XenServer for Free? If True, it Could Be the Way in for Citrix…

I’ve weighed in before on the whole ‘unshackle free ESXi’, several times in fact. And I’m going to do it again, because this latest move by Citrix is _very_ interesting. It’s no secret that the only viable External Cloud providers out there at the moment are running Xen in one form or another. Not XenServer, [...]

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VMware Converter 4.0 vs PlateSpin Migrate 8.0

I’ve been looking at the recent VMware Converter 4.0 release, and can’t help but think it spells trouble for PlateSpin. Converter is one of those products that’s kind of evolved from good enough for small time use to blossoming into an Enterprise worthy product. Now I must admit, I didn’t pay that much attention to [...]

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Welcome to the New vinternals.com!

Still a little rough around the edges, but we’ll get there… the import feature worked a treat although I guess any direct links to imported posts will be gone forever. Oh well, c’est la vie!

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Getting from Nice to Cannes / Cannes to Nice

VMworld Europe 2009 is only 1 week away, woohoo! I’m certainly getting pretty excited about it, so I thought I’d post up some info for anyone who is getting into Nice outside of the VMware provided bus times and travelling on their own dime or on restricted company dime (times are tough, I suspect most [...]

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VMworld Europe 2009 – "vinternals" Will _Not_ Be There…

… but Shyam and Stu from big-european-investment-bank-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-vinternals will be. Why am I saying this? Because it would be irresponsible of us not to have some dicussions with various vendors regarding their roadmaps and other potentially sensitive information during the course of the event. We completely understand that such discussions are not possible with media-blogger-types.
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ESXi Health Status Inequality – HP vs Dell

Ok, so I’m pretty sure most of you know I’ve been haxing around with ESXi for quite some time, but I only recently noticed the difference in what you see in vCenter Health Status depending on which hardware vendor you use. I’m sure you also all know that I’m a massive fan of HP, which [...]

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