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I was looking for an article that gave me a breakdown of the technology of the Nehalem. I didn’t want a techno deep-dive, but what I did want can be found here.

It shows that technologically the Nehalem effectively brings back HyperThreading by allow dual execution of threads simultaneously. Everyone knows that this doesn’t equal twice the power, but it can mean a significantly more efficient chip.

Below is a graph of the speed enhancements of a 2x workload on the Nehalem chip:

All looks rather tasty over the next few months.

A great list over at VMwareLand has been compiled of lots of top tens relating to VMware and Virtualisation.

They include:

Top 10 free tools that should be in every VMware administrator’s toolkit

Top 10 things you must read when trying to sell VMware as a solution to managementTop 10 things you must read about VirtualCenterTop 10 things you must read about VMware PerformanceTop 10 things you must read about Memory

• Top 10 free tools that should be in every VMware administrator’s toolkit
• Top 10 things you must read when trying to sell VMware as a solution to management
• Top 10 things you must read if you are new to VMware
• Top 10 things you must read to get more technical with VI3
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Storage (SAN/NAS/iSCSI/NFS)
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Security
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Troubleshooting
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Networking
• Top 10 things you must read about VirtualCenter
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Performance
• Top 10 things you must read about Memory
• Top 10 things you must read about the ESX Service Console
• Top 10 things you must read about Disaster Recover/Business Continuity and VMware

Check it out here.

NetApp are trying to make sure that they are riding the top of the wave that is being created by SRM. To this end they have started releaseing some technical documents around SRM in NetApp environments.

You can read the first Technical Report here. Running at 42 pages it is pretty in-depth.

I don’t know about you, but not being a programmer means I sometimes struggle with some of the concepts. I hope you find this article by Jeffry Snover over at the MSDN PowerShell blog as useful as me.

It gives a very nice analogy of how you can equate objects and their functions to riding a bike.

Nice and simple, just how I like my explanations.