As far as security vendors are concerned, everything is in jeopardy, indeed. Here is another sample of this story – The dark side of virtualization, you can get the whitepaper here. Agree or disagree is your own business, but I just can’t stop hating this.
Happy new year! Don’t remember who recommend this fabulous comics site to me, and anyway I put it here to share with you. It’s my pleasure if you really enjoy reading it. The site is: http://theoatmeal.com/ Some links I like the most: Ten Words You Need To Stop Misspelling Why I’d Rather Be Punched In [...]
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From Hany Michael’s blog, we see lots of books that published in 2009 entitled with vSphere. Of all the 7 books I only get 2 of them at present, I hope I can possess them all in the near future, especially the book vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide. (哪位好心人买这本书送给我吧！^_^) The book list is: Mastering VMware [...]
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You can use the tools provided by the specific HBA card vendor to get the WWN of an HBA card, for example, you can use SANSurfer for QLogic cards and HBAAnywhere for Emulex cards. (There is another easy way to get the WWN of any HBA card vendor, just install NetApp Host Utilities and run [...]
In the last few days, a great article about the comparison of Cisco UCS and HP Matix has been quoted in many web sites. Although Cisco is a new attendant in the server hardware market, but with its UCS bundled with EMC and VMware, anyone can ignore it presence. The first public comparison between the [...]
For a long time, I’m a hardcore of FreeBSD, prefer FreeBSD to Linux. But as far as virtualization concerned, FreeBSD is not well supported as a host OS by any of the available virtualization solutions. With the official (not experimental) support of ZFS in FreeBSD 8.0, FreeBSD is now a decent choice of storage system. [...]
After unsuccessfully configured the plugin ‘Now Reading Reloaded’, I found some PHP error on the top my blog, like “Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset”, feel very frustrated so I deactivate and delete the plugin, but magic not happen (at least for me) and the problem still exists. I googled a [...]
As I have learned from New Concept English III that predicting the future is notoriously difficulty, especially in our modern quick developing world. Ok, but here comes Henry Newman, he self-clamed some successful predicts of the Data Storage industry development in 2009. And here is his storage predictions for 2010 and the year beyond Storage [...]
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AoE (ATA Over Ethernet) is a very simple and lightweight protocol which does not rely on network layers above Ethernet, this makes AoE potentially faster than iSCSI, with less load on the host to handle the additional protocols, it also means that AoE is not routable outside a LAN. AoE is intended for SANs only. [...]
As we all know that there are different tools, e.g. Hyper-V Manager, Virtual Machine Manager and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), you will need to manage the Hyper-V environment and soon you will find out these three tools are sold separately but not sold as a bundle. Below are excerpts from the whitepaper of A [...]
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