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GestaltIT Field Day – Independent Blogger & Technology Vendor Event: 12-13 November 2009

Kiwi Si — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:33:03 +0000

This coming week (12-13 November) sees the first ever GestaltIT Field/Tech Day and I have been fortunate enough to have been invited to attend. After the recent success of the HP StorageWorks Tech Day this event follows in its footsteps but with a wider range of technology vendors and independent bloggers attending. So what is the [...] Related posts:

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Book – Free Dummies Guide to HP Virtual Connect

Kiwi Si — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:34:45 +0000

HP are giving away free electronic (pdf) copies of the Dummies Guide to HP Virtual Connect which is good as the Virtual Connect technology can prove to be a little confusing for first time users of the HP BladeSystem. The guide also touches on HP’s Flex 10. As mentioned this is a free download after [...] Related posts:

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HP Converged Infrastructure Architecture Announcement – the fight has begun?

Kiwi Si — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:41:29 +0000

HP have today announced a converged infrastructure architecture framework based around a selection of existing and new HP software and hardware products designed to “provide a blueprint for chief information officers to create elasticity in their technology environments, supporting innovation in their businesses”. The timing around this can’t really be missed, with Cisco, EMC and VMware [...] Related posts:

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HP Proliant Server Firmware Update CD – Help keep your server running smoothly

Kiwi Si — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:41:15 +0000

How many of your HP Proliant servers do you re-commission as virtualization hosts or have running that have outdated firmware? With the wide-spread adoption of virtualization there is more reason than ever to keep your server’s firmware updated to ensure that the hardware has updates that could provide possible enhanced virtualization compatibility or performance. There [...] Related posts:

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VMware vSphere ESX 4 Error During Install – Booting: MBI=0×000100d8, entry=0×00100212

Kiwi Si — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:51:03 +0000

Maybe you’ve dug out that old server that you’ve had lying around for a while now and want to install VMware ESX or ESXi 4.0 on to it but upon doing so you get the following error message and things come to a grinding halt when going to start the installation process: “Booting: MBI=0×000100d8, entry=0×00100212” So [...] Related posts:

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Veeam release a new version of Backup & Replication Software (v4) with some nice new features

Kiwi Si — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:59:42 +0000

Veeam Software the producer of many popular VMware management utilities has just released a major new version of their VMware backup product, Veeam Backup & Replication v4.0. As the name suggests Veeam Backup & Replication enables you to backup and replicate your ESX or ESXi based VMs. Those of you that aren’t familiar with the product [...] Related posts:

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Link – Running VMware ESXi on approved HP USB or SD Memory

Kiwi Si — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:14:54 +0000

This is a just a quick post to point you in the direction of Rick Scherer’s (vmwaretips.com) recent article about “VMware ESXi 4 and HP Servers” which ties in nicely with my post on downloading the correct VMware ESXi image for HP Proliant servers. As Rick points out, for an HP ESXi image to be considered [...] Related posts:

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Saving Power with VMware vSphere ESX – Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS).

Kiwi Si — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:22:00 +0000

With green computing, the introduction of the concept of a carbon footprint and the increasing cost of power businesses and individuals are more aware than ever of the virtues of running IT equipment as economically as possible, without jeopardising stability or performance. To assist in making your virtualized environment more energy efficient VMware released a nice [...] Related posts:

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