Archive for the ‘Virtualisation’ Category

Back Online (2009-12-15)

To all of those that emailed me to let me know my site was down I say thank you.
I have the displeasure of being hosted by one of the worst providers in the UK and I will now be moving away from them.  Until I have migrated away, I’ll be expecting a multitude of issues, [...]

FCoE Standard Ratified (2009-6-15)

It has been confirmed that FCoE has been ratified as a standard by T11.
I’m personally very excited, because I work with a lot of NetApp kit and NetApp are one of the very early adopters of FCoE, so I should be getting my hand on some exciting new kit soon.
If you want to read the [...]

Full Dr. Stehpen Herrod Keynote Available (2009-2-25)

You can now view the full keynote of Dr. Stephen Herrod on the VMworld website here.
Some excellent stuff, particularly the demos from Bruce & jerry Chen.

Day 2 Keynote – Dr. Stephen Herrod (2009-2-25)

The key focus here was the future of VMware virtualisation, Dr. Herrod went on to point out that this area is particular exciting at VMworld Europe as so much of the development is being done in the VMware EMEA sites
vCompute
Stephen outlined that in the upcoming version of VMware – vSphere – a single VM has [...]

Brian Madden Breathes Fresh Air Into VMworld (2009-2-24)

I attened the VDI vs TS presentation this afternoon presented by, the quite possibly mental, Brian Madden.  I have to say that I haven’t been to a presentation that frank in a long time, possibly even ever!
I won’t rehash everything from the presentation because you can read the crux of most of the discussions here.  [...]

vCenter Data Recovery Hands-On Lab (2009-2-24)

My, my I am excited.  I know that I do get excited about virtualisation related stuff regularly, but the same can certainly not be said about backup technology.  I have made an exception to my no excitement about backup rule after attending the hands-on lab for vCenter Data Recovery, outstanding!!
The best things often are the [...]