IBM have quietly and I mean quietly announced the release of the new Mid-Enterprise storage range, the XIV storage range has had two press releases here and here.
This is one of the most low key announcements I have ever seen from any vendor about something so important to their hardware product line.
If you want some [...]
I had a need for a floppy drive for a server that didn’t have a physical device. I know I could use a USB floppy, but the customer didn’t want a USB floppy hanging off the brand spanking new IBM x3650 servers.
The need arose from a feature in DataCore’s SANMelody software that allows any [...]
As most people will know by now there is a serious issue with licensing in the latest version of ESX 3.5 Update 2, which causes valid licenses to expire today (12th August).
The implications here being:
No VMotion
No DRS
Inability to power on of machines that are not already powered on
The solution is to disable NTP and manually [...]
Eric Siebert has compiled two more excellent Top Ten lists:
Storage in VMware
Get More Technical with VMware
Not much more to say, just that they are as excellent as I’ve come to expect.
Richard Bramley has written another excellent article that has stoked up some helpful comments as well.
It discusses the very useful RAMCheck tool in ESX that will check for faulty memory. I have used the utility a few times and it turns out, courtesy of a reader comment, that it has been removed from ESX 3.5. [...]
Brian Madden has created an article that walks you through using Microsoft’s SoftGrid product to sequence or virtualise Microsoft Office 2007 in 30 easy to follow steps.
It is worth a read even if you don’t own SoftGrid as the concepts can be applied to other Application Virtualisation products. I used the section about tweaking the [...]
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