The worst has happened. That sexy ESX host that you spent ages building and perfecting went south. For some reason, the raid you built was corrupt, and now you’ve re-installed ESX. With luck you had your VM’s on some shared storage (SAN, iSCSI, NFS). Or… You’ve just SCP’d over a metric boat load of VM
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Today VMware updated their website to reflect the new product names announced at VMworld 2008. I’ve gone ahead and created a little table you can use to make the transition/translation simpler:
This may not apply directly to VMware, but if you aren’t paying attention to the cloud you are doing yourself a disservice. It’s coming, and this podcast (or podcasts as the case may be) addresses some of the security considerations that “Cloud” brings to the table. Cloud Computing Software Development, Testing, and Security
While there are many reasons SCSI reservation conflicts can occur in a shared LUN environment, sometimes vendors write agents without knowing the full impact they could have in various environments they do not fully test. In HP’s case, there are 2 agents that are part of the Insight Manager suite that are responsible for excessive
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