Month: March 2009

Cisco Nexus 1000v details..finally!

For eveyone that has been waiting for some juicy technical details on the Cisco Nexus 1000v, Cisco and VMware have broken the silence and published a document describing many of the new features. It consists mostly of a table comparing the various features that the built-in VMswitch has verus the...

Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 7

Microsoft has released rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 SP1. To read all of the fixes in this rollup, see this link. As always, Microsoft recommends you update your systems to the latest RU, after thorough lab testing.

New ATI Windows 7 Drivers

According to this article at Extremtech, ATI will release updated video drivers for Vista and Windows 7 on a monthly basis. To download the new drivers go to this link. New drivers were released today, and I'm downloading them as I type this.

Major Intel CPU chip flaw exploit to be released

Check out this article for a very scary flaw in current Intel CPUs which could render an exploit virtually impossible to detect. The exploit was discovered by the same researchers that developed the Blue Pill hypervisor rootkit.Hopefully Intel and motherboard manufacturers can release firmware updates to patch this bug.

Storage Questions Part 2

1. Snaphotsa. What is the maximum number of read-only and read-write snapshots per LUN?b. Is a separate pool (reserve) of disk space required for snapshot use?c. Are snapshots space efficient?d. If a LUN has 10 read/write snapshots, and if the source LUN is modified, are 10 copies of that data...