Is Your Blade Ready for Virtualization? A Math Lesson.
I attended the second day of the HP Converged Infrastructure Roadshow in NYC last week. Most of the day was spent watching PowerPoints and demos for the HP
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide Released
The vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide: Shortcuts down the path of Virtualization has finally arrived! [iframe http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000
VMware Workstation 7, VMware Player and Microsoft Virtual PC
A little over a week ago, I was pleasantly surprised by an email from VMware announcing the release of VMware Workstation 7 . Since I actively participated
A Different Take on CEE and FCoE
Last Month, I attended a Brocade Net.Ed Session that covered Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and the idea of Serve
ESX vs. ESXi Which is Better? Revisited.
For over a year now, I have started off telling customers in Plan and Design engagements that they would be using ESXi unless we uncovered a compelling rea
Virtualization's Myths
Published on Forbes.com Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The fastest growing trend in IT is virtualization, a software technology that allows
VMware Workstation Release Candidate Available Now
VMware Workstation 7 RC is available now. A while back, I posted about how to disable debug mode and quickly made it private because I was under NDA. Well,
Another great job by the VMware Performance Team!
I just stumbled upon a fresh post by Hal Rosenberg , a Performance Engineer from VMware. Its a great doc, titled Performance Troubleshooting for VMware vSp
The Science of VMware and the Art of Photography
While attending VMworld this year, I participated in Greg Lato''s VMworld 2009 Portrait Project . Greg works days for VMware and freelances as a photograph
VCDX and VCP4
Monday was my first day at VMworld. I didn''t attend any sessions, but I did defend a design for my VCDX and I took the VCP4 Certification test. After that
Behind the Scenes Photos of VMworld Data Center
Two words: Holy Crap! http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/08/an-awesome-peek-behind-the-scenes-of-getting-hardware-ready-for-vmworld-2009.html
More on Cisco UCS, HP Matrix and ITaaS
I just finished reading Project California: a Data Center Virtualization Server. UCS (Unified Computing System) from Cisco. It gave an excellent take on C