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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
It’s been a busy couple of weeks! I was in Vienna, Austria, all last week, and I’m on the US West Coast this week. Even though I’ve been on the go, I’ve still been collecting various virtualization-related posts and tidbits. Here they are for you in Virtualization Short Take #36! ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
VMware Labs
The VMware Labs site contains some unofficial and unsupported (but quite cool) tools from VMware engineers.
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
I was browsing through an EMC technical document titled “EMC CLARiiON Integration with VMware ESX Server” (download it here) a little while ago and I came across a phrase in the document that caught my attention:
“VMware ESX/ESXi support both Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage. However, VMware and EMC do not ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Gift Idea - Speck SeeThru Satin Soft-Touch Hard Shell for MacBook Pro
This is an attractive hard shell for my MacBook Pro.
Information Storage and Management
This book provides in-depth information on information storage topics like protocols, storage virtualization, replication, security, and administration. It's written by a team of authors from EMC.
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
I recently had the opportunity to work on a proof of concept (PoC) in which we wanted to help a customer streamline the processes needed to deploy new hosts and reduce the amount of time it took overall. One of the tools we used in the PoC for this purpose ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Congratulations are in order for virtualization security company HyTrust, who within the last few days has had a flurry of activity. I’ve met HyTrust’s CEO several times (he’s a great guy, by the way) and I’ve followed the company since their early days; personally, I think it’s great that they’re ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
There’s a lot of hype surrounding the Apple iPad. Some people are proclaiming it’s the end of traditional media like newspapers, magazines, and books. I’m not so sure about that, but I have found one potential use for the iPad that—for me, at least—might be compelling enough to make me ...
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
I’ve been thinking about how to write this post since last Friday afternoon after I completed my VCDX defense panel. Even now, a week later, I’m not sure that I have the right words to use.
After many long hours of preparation on the application and the submitted design, after days ...
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Backing up your COMSTAR storage configuration
This blog post describes how to back up COMSTAR configuration information.
James O'Neill's Blog - The “Joy” of Regex Part 1
This is a post, by a Microsoft employee, on using regexes (regular expressions, originally from the UNIX world).
How to Flush the DNS Cache in Microsoft Windows, ...
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
There’s been quite a few good Cisco UCS posts published recently; I thought it might be handy to collect a list of some of them (I’m sure that I will miss some). Here are a few that I’ve seen over the past few weeks (in no particular order):
Swapping UCS Blades ...
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