02 Sep, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: Backup Technology| VMware| VMworld| Virtualization
VMware Data Recovery is a new feature introduced with vSphere 4 which attempts to be a full-featured backup solution for the ESX lineup. There are some limitations to the software that limit it more towards small to medium business – not really enterprise customers, however, I’d consider my company a small enterprise user and we [...]
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 [...]
01 Sep, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: Conferences| VMware| VMworld| Virtualization| cloud computing
Notes and things of interest from first day keynote:
12,448 attendees at this year’s VMworld – down from last year in Las Vegas
Tod Nielson, VMware COO, challenged partners last year to try and recruit any of the 40 Fortune 1000 companies not using VMware to purchase VMware – 10 companies were recurited and those partners were [...]
Shortly after embarking on our VI3 implementation at HTC, we also decided to upgrade our core network with HP Procurves. We had been using switch port based load balancing in our old core switches to provide redundancy for many of our more critical applications. With those switches being retired, we needed to find a new [...]
13 Mar, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: VMware| Virtualization
Our journey to VDI continues. This week, we had several more milestones on our road to delivering this solution into the far reaching corners of our area. Among those accomplishments were implementing the DHCP options successfully, setting up several pools of linked-clone virtual desktops and a wider testing of the Pano devices and their [...]
26 Jan, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: VMware| Virtualization
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 [...]
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 [...]
01 Dec, 2008
Posted by: Philip In: Parallels| VMware| Virtualization
Well, for as much as Parallels touted their Desktop 4 product is 50% faster, I have to admit that I’m initially impressed with Fusion’s speed. Its running extremely well on the same virutal machine that I imported from Parallels. The only nagging problem is the stuipid Norton Antivirus which apparently thinks I have changed systems [...]
01 Dec, 2008
Posted by: Philip In: Parallels| VMworld| Virtualization
Since I’ve blogged about my great problems with the Parallel’s Desktop 4.0 upgrade, I couldn’t not post this in case you’ve found yourself in the same boat. VMware Fusion is being offered at 50% off for Cyber Monday. (Just use the coupon code “CyberMondayDeal” on checkout). In addition, if you are a Parallels Desktop or [...]
26 Nov, 2008
Posted by: Philip In: Parallels| Personal| Virtualization
Well, after a week of issues with the Parallels Desktop 4.0 upgrade, I trashed my VM that I have lovingly used for the past year and I have started over with a fresh import from the Virutal PC VHD file I keep on hand. See, here is my history with Windows virtualization on the Mac: [...]
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