28 November 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks

Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks I have often thought of writing my own book on “things not to do” when building a virtual infrastructure and for what it’s worth, Larry Loucks has covered just about everything I would have written about – down to how recklessly VMware or other hyper-visors [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Microsoft Hyper-V Debutes for $28 per License

The long awaited Microsoft Virtual Server dubbed Hyper-V has now been released. At $28 a license, verses $7, 000 – $14,00 for VMware ESX, it should be well received with the economy possibly suffering from a recession. Should you install Hyper-V instead of VMware VI? Let’s see, one of the many purposes of virtualization is [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls

10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls I wish this information was available 10 years ago when I started working with virtualization, but then again, like many reading this, I thought I was an expert and didn’t need it. Now I see myself as a student because of how fast virtualization is changing. 1. [...]

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