I recently wrote an article covering storage for virtualisation and was surprised to find out that Microsoft does not support the use of NFS shares with Hyper-V. At first I thought perhaps I was doing something wrong and that my configuration was in error. But after a lot of [...]
I’ve been using VMware products for close to 10 years now. Scanning back on my purchase history, the first version of VMware Workstation I bought was 2.0.1 for NT & 2000 back in August 2001. I was an immediate fan of the product and at the time used it on a software development [...]
Today VMware announced the release of vSphere 4.1, the next generation of their ever evolving hypervisor. To be honest it would be hard to miss this announcement judging by the flurry of “first to blog” posts I’ve seen on RSS feeds and Twitter today (see the list at the end of this post). I’d [...]
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am. Here’s what happened.
Failing Disk
I [...]
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am. Here’s what happened.
Failing Disk
I [...]
This is the second in a series of posts looking at the DroboPro from Data Robotics Inc. Previous post(s):
Previously I discussed a few frustrations with connecting my new DroboPro to ESXi, the target environment for my new device. I’ve now managed to get the [...]
I’m in the process of migrating my existing physical infrastructure into a virtual environment. There’s nothing like “eating your own dog food” (there’s got to be a better expression than that) for testing out your beliefs on how technology should be implemented, so it’s only fitting I virtualise the IT infrastructure I rely on.
In [...]
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