VMware vSphere and NetApp best practices
I found this technical report from NetApp that reviews the best practices for implementing VMware® vSphere with NetApp unified storage arrays. Not all recommendations apply to every scenario, but this 96-page document is well written and easy readable. I’ve added it to our links-tab.
Why attend VMworld during financial crisis?
Anyone with any interest in Virtualization has his or her personal reason to (want to) go to VMworld this year in San Fransisco. Unfortunately, the current economic situation, and a lot of companies cutting budget and even laying of employees, doesn’t allow a lot of people to actually go to this great event. Whether you are a system engineer who’s just starting to learn about virtualization, or a more experienced engineer, a consultant, maybe an IT manager or a sales manager or even a financial officer. You all can benefit from attending VMworld. But in the end, somewhere down the line, the guy who’s deciding if you can go or not, wants to know what’s in it for him and/or his company? “What’s the return on investment of you going to VMworld?”
And my answer is, as a good consultant
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Change Microcode in Xenserver/Everrun
Up until today I even didn’t know what Microcode or what it’s purpose was. After today I’ve learned a lot about it and would like to share it with you.
”Microcode is a layer of lowest-level instructions involved in the implementation of machine code instructions in many computers and other processors” is the description from Wikipedia. I read more and normally the microcode is updated by using a BIOS upgrade or ROM Flash from your vendor (In my case Intel). … Continue Reading
Know what you’re talking about : get a free hyper-v training
As a technical consultant and VMware enthousiast I’m very often evangalizing the power and beauty of VMware and it’s products but I also have to face it that Microsoft’s share in the Hardware Virtualization space is growing. I have to know what I’m talking about when suggesting that VMware has the best solution for a customer
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That (and probably the fact that I’m a Dutch guy) is why I was pleased to see the post on the MVUG (Microsoft Virtualization User Group) blog by Patrick Lownds. It states that Microsoft has released a free Hyper-V training. The training is available til 28-12-2009 but I’m not sure until when you can use the free code to register for the training so be quick
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