Tag Archives: Virtualization

What Happens When Chuck Norris Divides By Zero? – Virtualizing Virtualization

Sometimes you really can have too much of a good thing. Or is it?
I’ve had a few specific use cases come up (demos for Virtualization Congress) where running one virtualization platform, on another virtualization platform makes sense (There will be instructions released on doing this closer to the show). Suffice it to say the process [...]

The Religion of Virtualization

I never thought of it this way, but alas, this weekend, a few folks have spent quite some time on it.
It started with Brenda at Virtual Gipsy:
Of the things I learned while studying anthropology, the one that stuck most was to always pay attention to that which stands out. Unexpected behavior, words that surprise you. [...]

Project VRC!

Came across this in my RSS reader, and figured it was worth a mention. Project VRC (Virtual Reality Check) provides vendor neutral white papers on how to best configure Xen, Hyper-V, and VMware for different workloads.
Do you wonder about virtualization? Are you seeking for the best virtualization platform for your specific environment? Project VRC shows [...]

Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast

Edward Haletky, a regular on VMTN, and the VMTN round table podcasts, is starting his own spinoff, the “Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast”
The first show, scheduled for Thursday at 2:30p EST, is going to feature the following topics:

Use of Virtualization in a DMZ.
Review of security lockdown standards/benchmarks and tools
Virtualization Security in shared and dedicated hosting [...]

Increase Simultaneous VMotions as well as Increase Performance

I’ll set the scene a little…
 
I’m working late, I’ve just installed Update Manager and I‘m going to run my first updates. Like all new systems, I’m not always confident so I decided “Out of hours” would be the best time to try.
I hit “Remediate” on my first Host then sat back, cup of tea [...]

Virtualization Vanguards

Virtualization.info provides a LOT of great virtualization related information and services. One of those services, for those of us social-networking inclined, is their Virtualization Vanguards. A Group on LinkedIn. I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined this group, and look forward to seeing what it will bring.

Vote For Me! – Virtualization Congress 2009

It seems my Automating VMware With Powershell presentation made the first cut. Click on through and vote for me!

"Free" Virtualization Round-Up

I’ve tried not to cover much outside ESX so far, but one cannot keep their head in the sand about what else is out there. Following on Pancil’s ESXi Post, I’ve found a breakdown, here of the "Free" Virtualization products.
Keep in mind, tis not my post, just came across it while looking some things up [...]

64bit VM Error – NMI Appears to be Stuck

kernel: testing NMI watchdog … <4>WARNING: CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck

This is what I was greeted with this morning on a 64bit RHEL 5 VM. After looking around the internet a bit, I found that this was a guest OS problem that was caused but a number of things.

First, was the resource pool setup [...]