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Lazy Sunday’s the perfect time for completely off topic blog posts. As I’m a huge turtle lover (Have 6) and VMware appears to be as well, we’ll use Sunday’s to talk of turtles. The Tiny Turtle is Pleased with this decision.

Came across a new blog around Cloud Security. The cloud is coming, and security will be one of the bigger issues surrounding it in the coming days.

The Hacker 2 Hacker Conference Brazil this year featured a paper called “Hypervisor Framework”. An interesting read for those more interested in the nitty gritty of how all this “Virtualization” stuff works

So I’m thinking of submitting.  All submissions are due December 31st. Accepted Topics     * Application virtualization & streaming     * Benchmarks     * Cloud computing     * Hosted virtual desktops infrastructures (connection brokering, thin clients, etc.)     * Software development & testing through virtual lab automation     * Storage virtualization     * Technology adoption
-> Continue reading Virtualization Congress 2009 Call for Papers

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
-> Continue reading HP Insight Manager Agents Causes SCSI Reservation Conflicts

This is a guest post by Darky from #ESX on EFNet. A lot of the time an ESX/VI administrator will not always have access to the SAN infrastructure. Often there can be frustration in trying to work with that SAN team cooperatively to determine whether or not the performance issue seen in an ESX environment
-> Continue reading Benchmarking and Troubleshooting VM Storage I/O Performance

One of these is archived, the other scheduled to go off on Dec. 16th.  Both require registration, and are worthwhile, despite the obligatory sales pitches. http://research.pcpro.co.uk/detail/RES/1224768378_490.html This one has already happened, and is available on demand. http://www.netiq.com/events/display.asp?cid=20081114152024NVKN&src=smm This is the Dec16th event.

Thought I’d share, that since I’ve opened professionalvmware.com, I’ve changed from Zoundry Raven to Windows Live Writer Beta.  It’s a world of difference.  How was I blogging before this?