VMWare


Zenoss core 4 now available

The open source monitoring solution Zenoss gets a new release with 4.2 New features include An Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) message bus New jobs system for asynchronous tasks New high performance event management system (100M + events per day) WMI support ExtJS 4 JavaScript Framework support Advanced monitoring for legacy and cloud platforms with continued support for OpenStack and […]


A virtual battle begins – Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator Release Candidate announced!

Microsoft has been hoping to steal some of the thunder from VMWorld announcements so heres the latest Announcing the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator Release Candidate! Download The Release Candidate We are very excited to announce the release candidate of Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter. Clickhere to join the connect program. If you have already […]


Vmware vSphere 5.1 – what might be new ?

As leaks and rumours start to grow prior to VMWorld 2012 – the one that most appeals to me is shared-nothing live migration. Boot from Fibre Channel over Ethernet, or FCoE, storage and official support for virtualized Active Directory domain controllers are also expected in vSphere 5.1, though these features are hardly earth-shattering. This is […]


Ubuntu – is it all that?

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 from 11.10 and the process was painless. I’ve been using Ubuntu from release 4.10 for which support finished in 2006 so it must have been released around 2004. In the early days upgrades were a bit of a lottery but of course at that stage PC’s were not the state […]


Epicor configuration and system administration

Had the opportunity this week to spend time with an Epicor implementation and configuration specialist on a project for a client. Given that we have already provisioned the virtual infrastructure for the client – the admin training was an opportunity to guage what changes in configuration would be required to move from a three virtual […]


Press Turbo for your VM Monitoring

Am currently testing VMturbo from www.vmturbo.com – its a tool to allow you to see your capacity planning issues with your vmware infrastructure. Primarily the areas it covers are – Infrastructure monitoring – Problem detection – Performance Reporting and Alerting – Capacity Reporting and Alerting   There is a community free edition – which has the […]