Category Archives: General

Like a lot of technical people working in virtualization I have had a home lab for study and testing.  I’ve written a few posts about this in the past but have made quite a few changes so it’s time for … Continue reading →

It’s long past time for another vBeers event in Auckland (Wellington too but I’m not due back there until February). Next Wednesday, December 5th at the Northern Steamship from 6pm, listed here on the vBeers.org site See you there for … Continue reading →

This morning I recorded a podcast with Greg Schulz of StorageIO.com, you can find the podcast at http://storageioblog.com/?p=3832 You may know Greg from his regular appearances on the InfoSmack, now superseded by SpeakingInTech. Alternatively from his writing, most recently his … Continue reading →

As my third VMware conference in three months I don’t think I had a normal vForum. Of course I started the festivities by arranging the second VMdownunderground party.  Veeam and Netapp sponsored the event that allowed conference attendees to start … Continue reading →

After a long hiatus due to multiple VMworlds and the backlog of things that needed to be done it is time to restart the APAC vBrownBag. The VCAP5-DCA prep wasn’t lighting me up so I’ve decided to return to what … Continue reading →

After the excellent San Francisco and Barcelona sessions in August and October the Tech Talks are coming to Sydney. Tech Talks are an opportunity for you to present something, anything, that is of interest to the Virtualisation community.  It doesn’t … Continue reading →

I took advantage of the fact that I’m on the other side of the world to my lab to see what PCoIP is like over a high latency network.  Since I’m at VMworld Barcelona running the vBrownBag TechTalks with Damian … Continue reading →

At times it’s hard to believe that these things happen.  It was surreal enough that I got to be part of the vBrownbag Tech Talks at VMworld US in San Francisco and to hang out with Randy Keener doing the … Continue reading →

My friend Michael Webster wrote a great article about the current possibilities, limitations and issues around presenting a disk device over 2TB to a virtual machine on vSphere. He also gave great guidance about how you might work with the … Continue reading →

Now that I’ve been back for a week and had some time to recover I thought I’d write a little about the whirlwind that was my VMworld. The first thing was the travel, the flight from Auckland to San Francisco … Continue reading →