Tech Talk

Following my November upgrade of Flex-10 VirtualConnect on my blade enclosure, I have begun my rollout and upgrades to ESX4 on a new blade cluster as well as one existing cluster.  There are quite a few lessons that I’ve learned on my roll-out. 

Today, VMware made their official announcement of vSphere, the next generation of virtualization technology in their flagship ESX line.  There has been a lot of coverage of vSphere online in the weeks leading up to today’s big announcement.  To me, the most interesting information and the most sought after is the answer to one simple [...]

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 [...]

The past month of my life has been spent dealing with the fall-out over a massive failure of our local blade enclosure.

I’m wondering what everyone else in the world does…  I’m investigating running Virtual Center/vCenter as a virtual machine in order to remove two additional physical servers running Windows 2003 Enterprise in a cluster.  I’m also very interested in running vCenter as a Linux virtual appliance when that becomes available.  Is anyone out there running vCenter [...]

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 [...]

I had a fairly major revelation during VMworld.  Its not something that I had stopped to think about and I guess the week of sessions and discussions helped me assemble several random thoughts together.  
First, I’ve always relegated virutalization to a status where it is certainly a valuable technology and integral part of HTC’s datacenter [...]

First, let me say that a wise man once told me that procrastination solves many a problem.  While I don’t think it always applies, when it comes to software patches and upgrades – I tend to tread water for a while before applying anything in production.
Everyone else has chimed in with their perspective on why [...]