Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Yes folks, it’s that time of year where the ‘Call For Papers’ for VMworld 2010 has been announced. If you fancy submitting a paper for consideration then log onto the VMworld portal to enter the required details.
Competition for acceptance will no doubt be tough so make sure you do your ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
With the increased adoption of virtualization by companies of all sizes there is a requirement by systems and server administrators to have a good appreciation and working knowledge of not only the hypervisor and the physical server on which it is running on but also storage and networking technologies.
Virtualization products ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
The HP Proliant DL380 is HP’s most popular model of server in their Proliant range and for good reason. The recent G6 model with its use of Intel’s Nehalem Processors, it’s ability to house 192GB of DDR3 memory and decent IO expansion capabilities makes this server an excellent candidate for ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Here are some photos I took from the recent HP Infrastructure Software & Blades Tech Day at the HP campus in Houston. There are photos from the various sessions the bloggers attended along with the HP blade hardware we saw and the fascinating ‘HP Factory Express’ tour.
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Here’s a new free VMware basic capacity utility from the folks over at VKernel that I thought was worth drawing your attention to. It’s called ‘Capacity View’ and “identifies capacity based performance issues such as virtual machine I/O latency or under-allocated CPU, memory or storage. Additionally, it monitors your available ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
I recently had the opportunity to participate in the latest episode of the Infosmack podcast. For those of you not familiar with this podcast, you’ve have been missing a real treat. It airs every Monday and is hosted by Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Myself (TechHead) & Greg Knieriemen (iKnerd.com & InfoSmack) had the opportunity to interview HP’s Vice President of Infrastructure Software & Blades Strategy, Gary Thome. In this informative interview Gary discusses the topics of HP Matrix & it’s announcement shortly after Cisco UCS, convergence, Blade power and cooling, blades & virtualization ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Wow, what a busy couple of days it’s been attending the HP Infrastructure Software and Blades Tech Day at the HP campus. So many subject areas around HP’s Infrastructure Software and BladeSystem products were covered my mind is spinning on where to start. That said there was some really clear ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
I have been kindly invited to attend the HP Blade Tech Day blogger event at the HP campus here in Houston. I am being joined by nine other bloggers, including fellow VMware vExpert Rich Bramley, from both the UK and the US who between them cover server, storage, networking, operating ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
A common occurrence discovered by HP Proliant ML110 and ML115 owners when having installed the HP version of VMware ESXi containing the management agents is a Purple Screen of Death (PSoD) after about 2 minutes of the ESXi host being up and running. The following video demonstrates this:
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