I found a good article that speculates on some possible enhancements that could be coming to vSphere this year and into next year. It will be interesting to see how closely these rumors track with reality as the year unfolds.Highlights of the speculation include:32-way VMs512GB RAM or more per VMEnhance...
Although I personally haven't done it, you can easily P2V Windows servers running on HP Proliant hardware. However, you have major cleanup work to de-install all of the HP-specific software, drivers, agents, etc. If you don't do this your VM will likely run extremely slow and suffer lots of problems.To...
VMware has finally released their draft version of the security hardening guides for vSphere 4.0. After taking a look at some of them, I'll make a few observations:1) Totally different format than previous versions, now organized in tables. Very similar to the DISA STIG security guides.2) VMware adopted various security...
Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, has imposed much stricter licensing controls in Windows Server 2008 and beyond. This is in an effort to stem the flow of piracy, which is probably pretty rampant in some communities. To help combat these evil forces in the world, Microsoft introduced Volume Activation 2.0....
1. Create a folder anywhere and name it:GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}2. Click on the control panel looking icon that the folder turns into.3. Have fun!You can also rename a new folder as well and paste in the string above.
A couple of weeks after taking and passing the VCP 4.0 exam I took the 3.5 exam today. Passed! It was funny..several of the questions on this exam carried over nearly word for word on the vSphere exam. The project I support at work is exclusively vSphere based, but I...
Whoohoo! Passed my VMware vSphere VCP exam today. I guess all that studying was worth it after all! Scored 419. Note, if you have a VCP 3.0 VMware just extended the deadline to January 31, 2010 to take the VCP 4.0 exam without the upgrade class. The original deadline was...
If you use HP Proliant servers and want the HP-ized version of ESXi 4.0 update 1 you can now download it from here. The ISO image is about 380MB. The only difference between the HP download and the vanilla VMware ESXi 4.0 U1 ISO image is the inclusion of Proliant...
The free 'non-production use' EMC Celerra VSA (virtual iSCSI appliance) is a great way to test iSCSI and SRM in a lab or evaluation environment. A few days ago EMC released a new version of the virtual appliance (5.6.47.11), based on the latest physical EMC Celerra product. You can find...
Cisco has released a minor update to the Nexus 1000v. They have a video showing some new features. Most of them are security related, and are summarized below. It appears to me VDS is designed to interoperate with the vShields Zones technology in vSphere. Layer 3 control A VSM can...
Ars Technica has a really excellent summary of the major new features in Windows Server 2008 R2. Some of the new features that jumped out at me are: Full Aero Glass with RDP. Great for virtual desktops. Remote server management tool now is network enabled so you can manage remote...
Today I was reading a whitepaper by 3PAR regarding SQL 2008 performance on their storage arrays. It's an interesting comparison of wide striping, RAID levels, mixed workloads, and number of disks. While browsing through the document I stumbled upon a SQL 2005/2008 feature which I was unaware of, but is...