Archive for August 5th, 2008

Changing A Mislaid ESX Root Password (2008-8-5)

Category: ESX, VMware, Virtualisation | No Comments

The Desktop Virtualization blog have posted a handy article on how to change the root password if you have forgotten/lost/mislaid it.
Check it out here.

Speed Up Windows (VMs & Physical) (2008-8-5)

Category: Microsoft | 2 Comments

I’ve found a multitude of blogs that point out that significant performance enhancements can be attained by disabling the File Last Access Time Check registry key in Windows Server 200x& XP.
I tried it and it does indeed make a difference, but don’t just take my word for it as Microsoft have disabled it by default [...]

3Par Announce VMware VDI Storage Suite (2008-8-5)

Category: Storage, VDI, VMware | No Comments

3Par have announced some back-end storage enhancements that can greatly improve the usability, scalability and performance of VMware VDI. Thin Copy Desktop has some of the following enhancements:
Automated Disktop Image Creation & Management – Storage level snapshots that are VMware VDI aware. This will apparently make desktops available in seconds instead of minutes/tens [...]

Storage Virtualisation & Databases (2008-8-5)

Category: Storage, Virtualisation | 1 Comment

I have almost completed an installation of DataCore’s SANmelody storage virtualisation product and wanted to find out about how the wider SQL Server (in my case) community feel about storage virtualisation.
It just so happened that one of the articles I ended up reading was written by the always excellent Brent Ozar. It discusses the [...]