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Upgrading from vSphere 4.0 to vSphere 4.1 update 2
This weekend I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my vSphere 4.0 servers to vSphere 4.1 update 2. The upgrades went amazingly well, and I was amazed at just how easy it is to upgrade a cluster with VMWare update manager. The upgrade process took about 30-minutes per host, and I used the following two resources to guide me through the upgrade: VMGuru's vSphere 4.0 upgrade procedure. VMWare KB article 1022140 which includes a video of the upgrade…
$ read more →KVM makes its way to Illumos
I've been a fan of KVM for quite some time, and gave a talk on it a while back. The KVM design always made sense to me, and I tossed Xen out the window the minute I started using it. Today I was pleasantly surprised to see that several folks from Joyent ported KVM to Illumos! This is way cool, and I can't wait to give this a spin…
$ read more →New zone features in Solaris 10 update 9
I just finished reading through Frank Batschulat's slide deck of new zone features in Solaris 10 update 9. The new update on attach enhancements look extremely useful, and I have a few systems I will have to try to p2v using the tools that now ship with Solaris. If you are using zones, you should check out his presentation. Good stuff!
$ read more →Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory
Slashdot covered a post from IBM developerworks that I thought was relevant to pass along here. The Linux 2.6.32 Kernel performs memory de-duplication a.k.a. KSM (kernel shared memory). Its a great read if you're interested in the advancements of Linux Virtualization…
$ read more →Awesome vSphere server videos
While I was studying for the VCP4 certification, I watched a number of awesome educational vSphere videos from Mike Laverick. Mike did a killer job with the videos, and they clearly explain a number of vSphere technologies in detail! Thanks a ton Mike for making these available!!!
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