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1. Chinwag with Mike… Daniel Eason [Episode 22] - This weeks chinwaggee is Daniel Eason – I know Dan from attending the User Group in London. Plus I follow his blog and tweets. He’s  currently an IT Infrastructure Architect from the UK working for airline. His main specialisms are within the key areas of a Datacentre Infrastructure, and this covers technology such as Virtualisation [...]
2. VMware VUM: Still haven’t found what I’m looking for… - I wrote an article recently about VMware U2. And I made this god awful pun associated with U2… Update 2 and the rockband U2. Geddit? Sadly, that reference didn’t really make the article on TechTarget. I dunno, perhaps Bono rang them up and said they couldn’t use it. The article was written sometime before the [...]
3. What’s New in vSphere4: Clustering with HA/DRS/DPM - This is the final article in a series about the new vSphere4.1 release. To be honest as I begin to the use the software on a daily basis I’m beginning to count a significant number of tiny enhancements here and there, that went totted up together really make difference. So I’m thinking at some stage [...]
4. Upgrading to vSphere 4.1 - Today Yesterday, I embarked on an upgrade from vSphere 4.0 U2 to vSphere 4.1. There’s a couple of caveats here and some gotchas. Firstly, I backed up my vCenter DB, and also shutdown my SQL2K8 and vCenter VMs, and took a snapshot of them before beginning. In terms of the order – you MUST started [...]
5. Vendorwag with Mike – DoubleTake with Ian Masters [Episode 21] - “This week’s “Vendorwag” is with the folks at Double-Take Software. Specifically, with Ian Masters of DoubleTake. Ian is UK Sales and Marketing Director at Double-Take Software, and has been advising organisations on their requirements for business continuity, disaster recovery and backup for over a decade. He has a wide background in the virtualisation, storage and [...]
6. Using the iPhone4 with the Mazda MX5 (with optional iPOD connector) - Well, how’s that for blummin’ obscure blog post title. This is for a very small number of readers who say yes to the following questions: Own a iPhone4 Own a Mazda MX5 (Latest model type) Have the Bose Sound system Have the optional iPOD connector in the glove compartment My iPOD cable is long enough [...]
7. My AyePhone4 Experiences… - I say AyePhone. Because if your from the North of England, when anyone say iPhone – it always makes think of some Yorkshire Sheep Farmer. Aye… Phone. I don’t normally blog about consumer based stuff because – well, basically I don’t care too much about it to be honest. Occasionally, you will see me blog [...]
8. What’s New in vSphere 4.1 – VAAI and Hidden 4th Primative - Intriguing blogpost title? I’m hoping your wondering – hey, Mike what on earth is a “primative”. What is the fourth one, and why is it hidden. Well, it’s all about how VAAI was meant to have 4 components. And there are. But folks are just being quite quiet about the 4 component. I think this [...]
9. APAC Roundtable – A Chinwag with Mike - This week it was my pleasure to be on the receiving end of chinwag. That’s when I get interviewed, and I just talk and talk and talk. Hey, you say – Mike? What’s new… :-p Yeah, I know I do go on sometimes. I guess I just can’t control my natural enthusiasm for hearing my [...]
10. Chinwag with Mike – David Davis [Episode 20] - For those of you in the UK, you might think I was chinwagging to the Conservative MP. Well, you’d be wrong. I’m not aware of any coalition policies surround virtualization yet. You should know of THE David Davis through his series of videos on a range of topics including Vi3 and vSphere4 for TrainSignal. David [...]