Virtualisation

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How long is too long for an corporate OS ?

This entry was posted in Comment Tips Virtualisation and tagged Virtualisation on November 18, 2011 by HAL

Working on a proposal for a prospective client I find myself metaphorically sitting in the IT managers seat wondering about the best way to approach the project they have outlined to me. Essentially its a total refresh of the infrastructure with a focus on the upgrading of  server operating systems tyo support new applications and […]

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Life without Steve

This entry was posted in Comment and tagged Apple IOS Steve Jobs Virtualisation on August 26, 2011 by HAL

At a recent social gathering – the subject of Steve Jobs and Apple came up. Interesting to see how far Apple and Steve have penetrated the general population rather than just the IT crowd. The topics ranged over the Apple approach to products and “innovation” through the previous history of Apple and some of the […]

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Persistence is futile or Adventures with virtualising a RedHat server

This entry was posted in Interesting Software Virtualisation and tagged Virtualisation VMWARE REDHAT on September 15, 2009 by HAL

QUITE Some time ago I began working on options for virtualising a physical Redhat server running on Dell hardware. Given my experience with various operating systems and migration to virtual machines – it wasn’t immediately obvious that this one would prove to be so stubborn. But it turned out to be an epic spanning almost […]

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Virtual machine watching

This entry was posted in Interesting Monitoring Virtualisation and tagged monitoring Virtualisation VMWARE ESX 3.5 on February 13, 2009 by HAL

With all the focus of my research for the last three months on familiarising myself with VMware ESX and the practical aspects of managing a simple ESX server configuration raises some areas that aren’t necessarily handled well by the supplied tools from Vmware. Firstly I wanted a simple monitoring application that allowed me to become […]

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