Actually had a wonderful discussion on BlueBear, Kodiak, and all things Geek with the Head Bear Matt himself. Sparing y’all the geeky details, what came of this my dear readers, is that I have Kodiak invites. Lots of them. Right here in fact! Just click on through, and be sure to mention that you came
-> Continue reading BlueBear Kodiak Invites – I Has Them!
Looks like it! Hope Y’all got your votes in on time!
This week I’ve got what looks to be some follow ups to the post from 12/28, on Florida turtles being ravaged for overseas appetites. And one for the post on 1/4 of the Green Sea Turtle Rescue. Florida’s natural bounty being looted Every day, hundreds of wild freshwater turtles are snatched from Florida’s lakes
-> Continue reading Sunday Turtle Blogging
Today I wanted to introduce the concept of IO domains for your storage planning. IO Domains are just that, areas or domains, separated by either policy, performance, or both.
First lets take a look at some of the potential problems and pitfalls they’ll help you avoid:
Virtualization.info provides a LOT of great virtualization related information and services. One of those services, for those of us social-networking inclined, is their Virtualization Vanguards. A Group on LinkedIn. I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined this group, and look forward to seeing what it will bring.
Sort of, it seems: Today, RSA integrates with VMware in an couple of what I would call "useful but not earth-shattering" points – you can integrate envision authentication with Virtual Center and it also integrates with VDM 2.1 and VMware View Manager for hardened authentication. But, with VMware as mission-critical as it is, security
-> Continue reading ESX Does RSA?
I’m back from vacation now! Woo! So to get the juices flowing, and the posts ramped back up, here is this Sunday’s Turtle blog post. This one about rare sea turtles beaching themselves on new-years. Just before New Year’s Eve, the Seaside Aquarium was kept busy with a green sea turtle and a shark both
-> Continue reading Sunday Turtle Blogging
I’ve tried not to cover much outside ESX so far, but one cannot keep their head in the sand about what else is out there. Following on Pancil’s ESXi Post, I’ve found a breakdown, here of the "Free" Virtualization products. Keep in mind, tis not my post, just came across it while looking some things
-> Continue reading "Free" Virtualization Round-Up
Shot above is my view of the incoming new year, from the 40th street beach, Boca Raton, Fl. Welcome to 2009!
So, I’m a feed reader, doing crazy amounts of information processing every day, from Cars, to Gadgets, to Cats… The thing that I read the most about of course, is Virtualization. Not just VMware, but Hyper-V and Xen too! (and VirtualIron, and Cloud Computing, and any number of other virtualization things. While right now VMware
-> Continue reading ESX3i, VMware’s best kept secret?
I told myself I’d not post on vacation, but alas, this story pulls my heart strings. It’s also happening in Florida, which happens to be where I’m from originally, and where all my friends and family are at. This comes from the LA Times: Asia appetite for turtles seen as a threat to Florida species
So the big news last week was that VMware decided it’s time to rename VMware Virtual Infrastructure (or VI as the peeps on the street are calling it these days) to VMware vSphere. The current version seems to be staying on the VI title and the next version will move to this odd naming structure.
-> Continue reading VI is dead… Long live VI…
I have it on good word that as of Wednesday last week the VMware turtles have gone on winter vacation to their condo in the Amazon Rain Forest. They’ll be back after the cold snap ends.
There have been a few situations lately where having the VMware VM Mobility guide was quite handy. Thanks to a co-worker for finding this and bringing it to my attention. Because different products were launched at different times, you cannot determine corresponding generations by matching product version numbers. The following list provides a quick
-> Continue reading VM Mobility Guide
That I go on Vacation! I’ll be leaving in about 2 hours to sunny Boca Raton, Florida to spend the next two weeks with family and friends for the holidays. The blog volume will likely slow "WAY” down, but I believe I’m leaving you in the hands of some very capable guest posters: Pancil, Darky,
-> Continue reading Today is the Day…
Many of you will say “RAID 5, of course!” and for those of you that do I would like to ask why? Is it because you really understand the differences between the different RAID levels? Granted that you may but have you ever had to do a RAID rebuild of a RAID 5 volume? How
-> Continue reading What RAID level do you use for your VMFS?
Mr. Epping over at Yellow-Bricks posted this on VMFS3 Heap Size. I’m reposting here for future reference. I was talking to a fellow consultant today. He ran into the following error messages at one of his customer sites: vmkernel: 8:18:59:58.640 cpu2:1410)WARNING: Heap: 1370: Heap_Align(vmfs3, 4096/4096 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0×8fdbd0 vmkernel: 8:18:59:58.640 cpu2:1410)WARNING: Heap:
-> Continue reading Heaping Heaps! – ESX Heap Size
Tom Howarth from PlanetVM turned me on to a great series of posts by Ed Haletky on how to manage different combinations of NIC’s in VMware ESX: Blue Gears – 2 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Blue Gears – 3 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Blue Gears – 4 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Blue
-> Continue reading Managing NIC’s in ESX
From Yellow-Bricks: Peter posted a VCDX Study Guide that covers most the topics on the VCDX Enterprise Exam Blueprint. NICE!
I’m still not sure I get it, but I’m Twittering. and can be followed here