With the arrival of vSphere 4.0, it’s a good time to revisit your guest standards. Not just what virtual hardware and resource allocations you use by default, but also what standard software you deploy into the guest. Virtualisation has been labelled a game changing technology, but when most people talk of this, they refer to [...]
And so is my PC, after suffering a fatal power supply failure a few days ago. Hence I couldn’t put up the obligatory “vSphere 4 GA” post on the 21st . Oh well. I’ll try and make up for the lack of content of late with a return to the Sunday Afternoon Architecture and [...]
Anyone who has joined the VMware communities roundtable over the past few weeks has probably heard me mention ILIO a few times, not to mention ppl like Brian Madden calling it out as a potential ‘game changer’. If Atlantis deliver, it most certainly will be (and I have no reason to doubt they will deliver).
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I hereby declare this will be the very last time I _ever_ post about the virtualisation FUD wars that are going on right now. What humours me the most is that Microsoft are acting as if they are equal to VMware both in product maturity and feature set, while declaring to be orders of magnitudes [...]
It was mentioned on the VMware Coffee Talk webinar today that .NET plugins will _finally_ be legitimised in the vSphere 4 client! Of course, there have been many .NET based plugins written for VI3, mostly on the back of Andrew Kutz’s fantastic reverse engineering efforts.
One thing that has always bothered me about VMware’s whole “cross [...]
The first VMware Coffee Talk webinar kicked off today, and was a good one. There was a surprisingly large number of attendees… more than there are on the weekly Vmware Communities Roundtable (although of course the number of downloads that the communities roundtable has after the event is much much greater than the number of [...]
