02 Sep, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: Clustering| VMware| VMworld| Virtualization
Long Distance VMotion is by far the best session I’ve attended and the most exciting news for me of the VMworld week this far. The session was a presentation of a research project performed by VMware, EMC and Cisco. The session presented four options for performing a long distance VMotion using stock vSphere and existing [...]
09 Mar, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: Blades| Clustering| VMware| Virtualization
I may have already mentioned that one of our projects for the year is to transition our corporate ESX cluster from 2U hardware onto blades. The process of transitioning does not come without some concern and some caveots moving to the blade architecture. We feel that blades are a good fit in our case for [...]
05 Mar, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: Blades| Clustering| HTC| My Projects
The past month of my life has been spent dealing with the fall-out over a massive failure of our local blade enclosure.
03 Jan, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: Blades| Clustering| HTC| Microsoft| My Projects
Twas the night of new years, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The little one had passed out, and we’d put her to bed. We had all celebrated with Carson, Dick Clark and the rest. Mom in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled [...]
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