I've been given the opportunity to be a guest author over at IT Pro Guru Blog, by Systems Management Expert Dan Stolts of Microsoft. I've gotten to know Dan from the variety of virtualization user groups in the Boston area he and I attend, including Virtualization Group - Boston that he helps lead, …
You heard all about guestOS = "winhyperv" here first! What if you just want to virtually "kick the tires" on the latest Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012, without committing dedicated hardware, to focus more on learning the features than the performance? Well, if you already have the …
The SSD industry keeps moving forward, with the variety of SSD caching solutions bundled with particular SSDs seeming to be mere stop-gaps until 512MB SSDs truly become affordable. Well, then again, what if you don't wish to rebuilt your 1TB or greater C: drive (laptop or desktop), slipping in an…
Like many of you, I've been eagerly awaiting the release of vSphere/ESXi 5.1 for a variety of reasons. I've also adjusted my VMworld 2012 schedule accordingly, to be sure to confirm sessions VSP1549 AND BCO1757 mentioned at VMware vSphere 5.1 to include shared-nothing live migration. So glad I'll …
Announcing the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow, Dan Stolts ITProGuru Presentation by Tome Tanasovski, Microsoft Waltham MA, Wednesday June 27th, 2012 blogs.technet.com/b/danstolts/archive/2012/06/21/announcing-the-windows-server-2012-community-roadshow.aspx You can view the slide deck here: …
Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Server Virtualization There's interest in using ESXi 5.0 Update 1 to "kick the tires" on the latest Hyper-V, ideally, able to run "nested" VMs, as a learning/self-training exercise really. I still don't have nesting working however, which is…
I have a lot of great stuff cooking, almost ready to be consumed. Hot off-the-press stories to expect this month include: SSD chosen to cache both reads and writes on a RAID5 array, under ESXi 5 (finally, CacheCade Pro 2.0 for the LSI 9265-8i RAID adapter, reliability and speed, NAS nirvana at …
This really is a lab project/learning exercise, where I document what works well for me, and for many other site visitors. Feedback through comments below are always appreciated! Here's a list of articles/references I mentioned during or shortly after the presentation: My energy consumption …
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After 6 successful years testing then shipping well over 1,000 Xeon D Bundles, Wiredzone had to stop selling them in mid-2021 due to cost, supply, and logistics challenges. So far, Xeon D-1700/2700 (Ice Lake D) was a minor refresh for 2023, with Xeon D-1800/2800 (Granite Rapids D) refresh looking a little better for 2024. More cores, but still just PCIe Gen4 and DDR4. Looking ahead, I'm glad it's Pat Gelsinger at Intel's helm. I'm also grateful to have had the honor of working at VMware when Pat was the CIO there. I'll leave it at that, given the whole Broadcom thing.
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