Desktop Virtualization.

OK. So I know that we should avoid being protocol passionistas, but DEAR GOD. I loaded Sun's Virtual Box to provide an XP vm instead of my stand-by of many years VMware Workstation. I have configured everything per the instructions and made multipe tweaks but the VM just hogs every resoure and it shouldn't ... this never happened with Virtual Server 1.0, 2.0 or even workstation 6.0-7.0. Going to head back to my old stand-by as I bid adieu to an obviously inferior product.

I can only imagine how bad Sun's enterprise hypervisor would be if their desktop porduct is this poor.

Craiggo out.

VCP 4.

So I had Pneumonia for the last 2 weeks or so. UGH NOT FUN!

On Saturday the 19th, I had a fever of 102 and had to go in and take my VCP 4 Exam. Thinking that I TOTALLY flubbed it, I was pleasantly suprised when I got a score high enough to be a VCI.

Just in case you didn't know the upgrade period for VI3 VCPs has been extended until Jan. 31st.

Now before you get all flamey on me check the certification portion of VMware's web site as this was updated to reflect the change recently.

Where did all my SPARK posts go? I'll try to find those talk to you soon.

The SPARKs, types and abilities.

It's been a long time since I have talked about "SPARK"s and their impact on IT and the lack of HR professionals to realize what they might have, all BEFORE they interview with the hiring manager. It's been almost a year in fact. Please feel free to read my multipart posting frenzy on this topic HERE. In this next series of articles I wanted to address the different types of "SPARK"s and how they will impact any environment that they are dropped into.

The different "SPARK"s that I can think of are listed below:

SPARK

IGNITION SPECIALIST

DEMOLITION SPECIALIST

CONFLAGRATION EXPERT

M.O.F. - MASTER OF FIRE

There may be more in the coming days or weeks as I add content specific to these categories. But this is a good starting point.

Talk to you all soon.

Piece :P

Already Been Said ... BUT ..

So many of you who follow the VMware and virtualization industry closely, know that VMware Workstation 7.0 was released a couple of days ago. If you haven't used it or it's been a while ... pop over to www.vmware.com to pick up a copy. If you use it all the time, update your copy nice new features listed here it's now supported to run vSphere4 in a VM ... NICE :).

Exchange 2010 RTM.

W00T!

Exchange 2010 is RTM.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Time to tighten up your understanding since much was changed.

Also if you plan to do co-existence with 2007 and 2010 you need to make sure that 2007 is at SP2.

Vacation.

Over the last couple of weeks the wife and I went down and visited the capital of heat and humidity .... OK it's possible it's not the capital, but it's gotta be an honorable mention.

Florida. We hit Magic kingdom, EPCOT, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios.

Animal Kingdom Safari Ride = CRAP! Good Lord. I had the WORST experience on this thing. The ride never stopped or slowed down ... we went about 20-25mph through this whole thing ... insane hurt my back and threw out my wife's.

One of the best rides was the Tower of Terror. AWESOME!

Quick Update. UCS Oversubscription? Not a big deal ....if considered?

Hello All,

I am compiling content for UCS and vSphere. Some interesting things that I am trying to reconcile in my own understanding. In all my reading and looking at the system it seems that there might be a possible oversubscription issue right at the chassis. I know that we all love oversubscription from a datacenter perspective since most links rarely stick at 100% usage for long periods of time. But shouldn't that be designed in from the core level? But UCS has a 2:1 over sub rate before it leaves the chassis. So as Technologists we need to keep that in mind. Since the usual ratio is 4:1 or 6:1 then it's possible to get that rate and hit the golden ratio as long as you consider that UCS hits 2:1 as soon as you plug it in.

Not a bad deal.

See you guys soon.