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Distributed File Server (DFS) Reporting

Well, haven’t I been out of the loop for a while?! Thankfully, my unemployment lasted nowhere near as long as I would have expected in the harsh economic climate and I am adjusting brilliantly to corporate/enterprise life once again (like there would be any doubt!) Read the rest of this entry »

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The HA “split brain” problem

This ISN’T something that occurs frequently, but it is something that I would want to test in HA (High Availabilty) before I went to production! Read the rest of this entry »

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New Vmware Convertor 4.0.1

Vmware Convertor allows us to P2V (Physical to Virtual) migrations. That is, taking (potentially) a running machine on my network and importing it directly into my virtual infrastructure. Read the rest of this entry »

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Vmware vSphere (ESX 4) Virtual Motherboard

As we all know, it’s a 440BX based mother board being fed into our virtual machines. The advantage? It’s sooooooooo generic that every operation system should be able to recognise and use it.

Has that changed in vSphere (ESX 4)? Read the rest of this entry »

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Kevin Rudd’s $900

Welcome to Australia where the government, in a effort to forestall a recession, decided to give everyone who paid their taxes last year up to AU$900.

So, let’s all say, “Thanks KRudd!!!” Email me your pictures (krudd@invurted.com) of what you spent your KRudd money on!

Yay, KRudd!!!

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Vmware vSphere

Vmware’s launch of their new operating system, vSphere (Vmware ESX 4!), is being lauded as the first “cloud operating system”.

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Time wasting

Since being made redundant (am I harping on this too much) I’ve relied on the internet to amuse me.

Hours of entertainment: http://flyingthaddeus.mybrute.com

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Another revoltin’ development

In a turn up of a most unexpeted nature, everyone’s favourite virtual-oso has been struck by the Global Economic Crisis.

On Monday, at 9am I was called into a meeting with four of my peers and summarily dismissed on the spot. Talk about unexpected!

Still, I hold hope for a bright and promising future and would like to recognise the invaluable aid and support of my beautiful partner Rebecca and her wonderful son!

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[TUTORIAL] Failure to Enter Maintenance Mode

Greetings, faithful reader,

This one is as much a reminder for me as it is one to you! Read the rest of this entry »

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Virtual Centre database problems

I was mucking around with one of the SQL servers used for Virtual Centre because the SYSTEM drive was full and found some interesting problems. Read the rest of this entry »

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