VM-Aware

As is becoming the norm of late another buyout has occurred, this time it is Vizioncore rivals and generally great software providers PlateSpin.

The acquisition comes from Novell, not content with buying all of these companies:

• SUSE
• e-Security
• SiteScape
• SiliconRepublic
• Ximian

Now that the Xen hypervisor has been integrated into SUSE, you can see where this acquisition may be going.

As usual virtulization.info got this story first, read the original article here.

I know that in ESX 3.5 you don’t need to mess about with conf files for ntp as it is all in the VI Client, but it can still be a bit laborious in 3.x.

I was pointed to VMcolonel.net by a fellow VCP (thanks Stuart) and it does a great job of fully automating the NTP configuration.

Check it out at www.vmcolonel.net

I haven’t posted for a while, because I’ve been on holiday, but this video blew me away so much that I had to post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Miv0PiJFzM

I found it whilst catching up on RTFM posts and I think you’ll agree it is pretty awesome what NetApp can do in terms of time saving in any space, but especially the VDI area.