Server Workloads to Hit 70% by 2014

Well it would seem that Virtualisation within the server workloads is really starting to become pervasive, to be honest I'm surprised that it will take until 2014 before this is the case.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/20/idc_server_virtualization_forecast/

Home Lab

The idea of a Home Lab is something that I have been after for a long time, after years of trying to get VMware cluster running of VMware Workstation (and yes I know it can be done but it is very messy), I now have a Server at home (an ML350 G4 Quad Core with 8GB of ram and 1TB or Raid Storage) thanks to a very generous Customer.

So I now have a 3 Node nested ESXi cluster running on ESXi as a base OS, the VC is set to auto start and then the ESX Nodes can be brought up as required, for shared storage I use a  QNAP NAS that supports both iSCSI and NFS with 1TB of Mirrored disk. to get nested ESXi to work correctly there only needed to be one or two hacks and that is a change to the advanced setting on the VM's to add the following option and a network setting change, these can be found on the site below.

http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-can-even-virtualize-itself/

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Leeds VMUG

So after years of wondering if as a consultant I would be welcome at a VMUG, and to be honest the thought of going all the way down to London, I finally made my way up to the VMUG in Leeds (my Head Office is just outside Leeds) and I have to say I was imprest, the organisation of the event was very smooth and the presentations were also. It was nice to see some old friends from both the customer and reseller markets there, Ricky was his old self and Mike as always does like the should of his own voice (but I did have an interesting debate with him about Citrix and VMware), it was also great to see my old friends from VirtualDCS I'm glade to see that they are starting to get far more traction in the market.

So off we go again but this time to the vCloud.

So just about packed to go to Copenhagen for a week of virtualisation goodness.


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So what all the fuss about VMForce

So yesterday was the big day the launch of VMforce and all i can say is what was all the fuss about, big deal VMware have entered into a partnership with Salesforce to deliver a Java development platform out in the cloud, did it really need all the pomp and sere many, after all could this not be done with some tools on EC2 or any other hosting system.  

Microsoft BPOS Online solution

Today I have been looking at the Microsoft BPOS solution and I have to say as a solution it's good and given the choose of moving to BPOS as an option appossed to the option of moving to exchange 2010 or 2007 I would suggest it. But the big issue is at present the version that is there at present does not really support interoperbility with existing on premise exchange systems.


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So Microsoft at last make moves on VECD licensing.

Microsoft have at last made the VDI market more likely to prosper that's to changing the licensing model for VECD, it's now free if you're on SA and sinlge yearly charge if you're not so that clears up the market now that MS Has a viable offering.


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Citrix Seems to have grown up!

Today I attended a Citrix partner event and it the first one I have attended in a few years, and god there offerings do seem to have grown up. They are curtainly are very much in bed with Microsoft and VMware are very much the enermy, but with that said they are still say that one of the big advantages of xendesktop is that it is hypervisor agnostic (and yes that means ESX).
I would say that Citrix does have almost a complete play when it comes to there suit of desktop virtualisation products, the main thing that I still think is missing is there offering on profile management.
It's going to be interesting to see how the RTO inclusion into view will help with this in View later this year.


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VMWare and RTO

So VMWare have done it, yes they have bought RTO well the bits that they could anyway. And I have to say what a good thing, the one big issue that all of the VDI and Remote desktop solutions have is the mangement of the user component not the actual desktop, the desktop and user presentation issues have mostly been fixed over the last couple of years. But this user bit has been a big issue since I can remember, yes there are 3rd party solutions such as Appsense and RES Software (Powerfuse), but what has allwas been required was all of this from a single company.
But of course if only Microsoft was to fix the issues and move away from those bloody roaming profiles as there answer to the question, yes I know that things have improved in the last few years but really the profile and group policy solution is tha same as it was with windows 2000.


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Hospital Today - not technical

So today I went into hospital to have my pre operation check up, and surprise surprise they did not like my blood pressure. But what do you expect if you take the reading just after telling me all about the operation and how much pain I would be in afterwards.

They then took my blood pressure again after we had gone through all the millions of questions that I had to answer about my medical history, and yes my pressure had dropped. So I guess it looks like i'm on to have my nose drilled out and my tonsiles out.


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VMWare view is it all that?

So yesterday I was down at VMware looking at both view and SRM, and of the 2 product it would seem that SRM is the far more finnished product and also I feel the stronger product at present.
View I feel is still a very not quite there solution it is far better than when I last saw it at version 3, that's not to say that it does not function well but it's just not finnished. I would also say the same of the ZenDesktop solution from Citrix, I do think that given more time both theses solutions could take over from the traditional SBC solutions from Microsoft and Citrix.
Site Recovery Manager (SRM) seems a far more complete product and moving forward it look to be the under pining of the cloud computing solutions that will allow datacenters to be moved geographically with not down time.


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