From the monthly archives: July 2011
With the announcement of vSphere 5, and more importantly it seems, with the change in the way that enterprise licenses are sold and managed, there has been a lot of talk (here and elsewhere) about how the cost of virtualizing, especially in a dense fashion got more expensive. I won’t bore you with [...]
Continue Reading →If you haven’t seen it yet, the new vCenter Web Client is beautiful. Seriously, it looks great. There seems to be a good bit of Flash used which can be painful at times, but it’s definitely the best looking GUI that VMware has ever created IMO. Is it a replacement for the full vCenter client? [...]
Continue Reading →Playing around in the lab this week, I noticed something interesting. I’m not sure if it’s a bug, or by design, but it’s new with vSphere 5 so I wanted to share.
I have one lab that has vSphere 5 installed on internal hard drives, and everything looks just like it should. When I look [...]
Continue Reading →So right up front, I’ll tell you there’s no way I’m offering an opinion on this topic. There’s no upside, and I’ve learned my lesson the hard way. For all of you who have sent me a DM, e-mail, etc.. asking if I was going to put up a blog post with my [...]
Continue Reading →I was lucky enough to have Jay Cuthrell (@qthrul) back out at the last minute (ha) and was offered a spot in one of the daily vblogs that Cisco’s Didier Rombaut (@drombaut) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) are doing every day here at Cisco Live 2011. Also in the video is my fellow Charlottean and good [...]
Continue Reading →Kevin McLaughlin did a lengthy story over on CRN.com in May about how Unified Communications is the “next big thing”, and while his reasoning is sound, including his observation that Cisco is leading the pack, I would argue that we’ve passed the tipping point with this technology. There are a [...]
Continue Reading →This post grew out of a conversation I had on Twitter last week with Ed Haletky (@texiwill) and Brent Quick (@brent_quick) on Twitter. Trying to cram everything in 140-character snippets was driving my crazy, so I threatened to turn my ranting into a blog post. And here it is! [...]
Continue Reading →This is a quick addendum to the recent posts on my home lab, showing what can happen when you don't think all the way through a migration project!
As part of building out the new lab, I needed to move all of my internal management VMs over. They had been residing on an HP DL360 [...]
Continue Reading →With part one of my whole home computing make-over complete, it’s time to get finish up on the lab! There are tons of other great blogs out there that talk about home labs (like this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and Continue Reading →
Me! Ha! I know, right? Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria! (What movie is that from?)
All kidding aside, this feels like a weight off my shoulders and [...]
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