One of the best sessions to date of VMworld was discussing virtualizing SQL 2008 in vSphere. VMware has written a lengthy whitepaper going over the gory details. In short, you will likely get 86% or better of bare metal performance if you virtualize SQL with vSphere, even for the most...
At VMworld VMware is showing off a preview of their client hypervisor. When combined with their VMware View product, it virtualizes the client hardware yet gives you the full desktop experience..online or offline. You can then check in or check out VMs, create new client images, all with hardware independence....
Today at VMworld HP announced their the HP Insight Control for vCenter. In a nut shell, HP is adding a new tab in vCenter which allows you to quickly monitor hardware health with one button launch to iLO, SIM, or power stats. Red/yellow/green lights for many subsystems let you quickly...
Later this year VMware will be releasing a software only version of PCoIP. What is PCoIP? Teradici developed the protocol to compete with RDP and ICA, but offer a richer multi-media experience. Their original product requires specialized hardware on both the server and client end. However, the LAN experience is...
So today at VMworld I learned that the current version of the Cisco Nexus 1000v is NOT compatible with the vSphere vShield technology. I didn't get an approximate release date on when a compatible version would be released. Stay tuned!9/1 Update: I talked to a VMware lead for vShields and...
Cisco has created a good PowerPoint slide deck on how to configure the Cisco Nexus 1000v with the HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 blade interconnect. You can download the slides here. They also created a video which you can see here.Over the coming months I'll be working integrating both technologies with...
Last weekend I reloaded my new PC with Windows 7 x64 RTM on my new OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD. After being thoroughly impressed with the boot time of Windows, I noticed once I logged in there was a 45 - 60 second delay of items in my startup folder. In...
While browsing some RSS feeds today, I came across some more intersting Flash cookie and browser cookie information. There's a great paper detailing the Flash Cookie issue which I blogged about earlier this week. If you are concerned about browser privacy and ad tracking, its well worth a read. What...
No major updates, but lots of bug fixes and one security patch. No mention of official Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 support, although I haven't had any issues with them on 6.5.2.Download it here. Release notes are here.
Today at home I'm setting up a vSphere 4.0 environment inside Workstation 6.5.2 so I can get more familar with the product. For my vCenter server I'm running Server 2008 R2 with SQL 2008 SP1 64-bit on my new 12GB i7 920 system.I started the vCenter installation and got a...
Microsoft is hosting a few 'launch' events later this year for Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010. If you register and attend, you get a free copy of Windows 7 (Professional?). See this link for all the dates and locations.
I read a very interesting article from PC World regarding browswer cookies. What was news to me was that Adobe Flash and SilverLight can both store their own cookies independent of your browser. So even if you clear your browser cookies or have placed restrictions on them, advertisers and other...