VM-Aware

As you may know I work for Triangle Computer Services here in the UK. We are hosting three events to cover the most interesting parts of VMworld Europe 2008 for all the people that could not make it.

They will take place on:

• 6th March - Triangle Minstead, Hampshire
• 13th March - The Village Hotel & Leisure Club, Warrington
• 2nd April - The Royal Society of Art, London

Why attend?

• Hear industry leaders speak about trends and challenges, including VMware, Vizioncore, Datacore DoubleTake and WYSE
• Visit break-out sessions with key virtualisation partners
• See previews of future developments & strategies

The full invite can be viewed by clicking here.

Another great post on the VMware Security Blog has outlined some of the best practices associated with isolating all VMotion traffic.

This was born out of an exploit being found that allows a hacker to take control of a mid-migration Virtual Machine.

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Yes you did read it correctly, the guys over @ VMware courtesy of the VROOM! blog have published some lab results of Exchange 2007 being pushed on an ESX 3.5 box.

The results are extremely positive and 8 VMs running 2000 mailboxes each are very comfortably served on ESX 3.5. Admittedly the ESX host is an IBM x3850M2 with 4 quad processors and 128GB of memory, but nonetheless impressive it is.

Read all about it at source here.