Virtualisation

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Whats better than WordPress ? Instant WordPress

This entry was posted in Must Have Virtualisation Web and tagged Instant Wordpress Wordpress on May 17, 2012 by HAL

You know when you see a great idea perfectly executed ? You know you want it … So when a colleague offered to show me WordPress running from a usb key with all the bells and whistles – of course I was intrigued. How would he do it ? Instant WordPress is a complete standalone, […]

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Presenting Usb devices to virtual machines

This entry was posted in Gadgets Virtualisation and tagged DIGI ANYWHERE USB on May 16, 2012 by HAL

I had cause at short notice to have to provide a solution for a client with a VMware infrastructure who needed to present USB license dongles to a virtual machine after a successful P2V migration. The software company providing the dongles asked if passthrough was available but in the particular release of ESXi this was […]

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VM Explorer 4 released

This entry was posted in Software Virtualisation and tagged Trilead VM Explorer on May 15, 2012 by HAL

From the developers of Trilead VM Explorer – the final release of 4 The new release introduces fully integrated support for Microsoft Hyper-V server (backup, restore and replication). The two-in-one integration comes without any additional costs to the customers. At the same time, VM Explorer® 4.0 remains simple and reliable. In this way, if the […]

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This entry was posted in Software Storage Virtualisation on May 1, 2012 by HAL | Open »

Got a very useful paper from a colleague which I needed as part of of an ongoing project implementing a Fusion IO based SQL server as part of an ERP implementation. It was great to get such a targeted paper at the time I needed it and it may be of use to others who are aimin to get the max performance out of specifc poweredge servers. The link is here and contains Dell’s recommendations for servers that have certain features and capabilites that impact on the latency of performance or otherwise.

Thanks again Steve for the timing

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Configuring Low-Latency Environments on Dell Poweredge servers

This entry was posted in Software Storage Tips Virtualisation and tagged Dell ERP Fusion IO Poweredge on April 19, 2012 by HAL

Got a very useful paper from a colleague which I needed as part of of an ongoing project implementing a Fusion IO based SQL server as part of an ERP implementation. It was great to get such a targeted paper at the time I needed it and it may be of use to others who […]

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Vmware Partner Exchange on Tour time

This entry was posted in Comment Virtualisation and tagged VMWare Vmware Partner Exchange on March 22, 2012 by HAL

Its been a bit quiet on the local  VMware Partner Exchange scene  in the last while so its great to see that some events are being arranged in the UK. The last event I attended was in Dublin and was useful getting to meet some of the reps and technical contacts. There are two events […]

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VM explorer just got HyperV friendly

This entry was posted in Software Tips Virtualisation and tagged HyperV Trilead VM Explorer on March 6, 2012 by HAL

I just picked up the latest info for the beta release of the Trilead VM explorer product. The main new features of VM Explorer 4.0 beta 2 are: Added  possibility to shutdown VM before starting backup/replication task Added  possibility to log scheduled task result in windows log Hyper-V Backup: Now you will be able to backup […]

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Take the leap with Windows 8

This entry was posted in Review Software Virtualisation and tagged Windows 8 on February 24, 2012 by HAL

The anticipation is building with the announcement that we should see the consumer preview of MS next big thing on the 29th of February. Given the leap nature of the day and the need for an unusual launchpad – it should be auspicious beginning to the platform that Microsoft will hope gives users a whole […]

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