Archive for June 26th, 2008

Intel Nehalem – What’s The Big Idea? (2008-6-26)

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 [...]

Top Ten Everything VMware (2008-6-26)

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 [...]

VMware Site Recovery Manager & NetApp Storage (2008-6-26)

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.

PowerShell For Dummies (2008-6-26)

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 [...]