Archive for July 15th, 2008

VMware Server 2.0 Beta Update (2008-7-15)

I was looking to install VMware Server on my beat-up old PC that is running Ubuntu 8.0.4 and found that VMware had updated the feature list for VMware Server 2.0:
What’s New

Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS): Properly backup the state of the Windows virtual machines when using the snapshot feature to maintain data integrity of the [...]

Citrix On VMware! (2008-7-15)

One of my favourtite Blogs is ICT-Freak there is a wealth of information to be found here, some of it in Dutch, some of it English, but all of it awesome.
One of the author’s contacts sent him a mass of recommendations for running Citrix in a VMware environment. Covering some of the following:

Technical Recommendations
Deployment
Disaster [...]

Rescan SAN Extremely Slow (2008-7-15)

I recently came across a problem whereby a Rescan SAN was taking an absolute age, like 15 minutes from the VI Client. Now I love the VI Client, but sometimes it just doesn’t give you enough information when it is doing things. To be fair most of the time the verbose information is [...]

Bash Vs Powershell (2008-7-15)

Here’s an interesting little piece comparing Microsoft’s PowerShell to good old Bash.
It is as non-biased as I have seen these comparisons be and it does a good job of pointing out the major difference, PowerShell is object-oriented and Bash isn’t. I don’t think that this in itself is reason enough to consider one better [...]