Archive for March, 2009
Another mega slow VIToolkit call (Get-HardDisk)
My good friend has found another VI Toolkit call that is amazingly slow compared to pulling useful data from it. I’ve done performance testing before of Get-VM against Get-View to get to the useful data needed day to day. In that test using Get-View was 18x faster than using Get-VM. This past week he was [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: Get-HardDisk, Powershell, VI Toolkit, vitoolkit
No more Parent Partition
Microsoft has renamed the Parent Partition in Hyper-V. It is now called the Management Operating System. Nice that Microsoft folks are starting to admit in passing that their is a heavy dependency on this MOS. Giving it a real name is a starting point.
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: hyper-v, server virutalization
HP SIM 5.3 kills iLOv2
Recently at the request of our vendor (HP), I went and had HP Systems Insight Manager updated to 5.3 about 3 weeks. Now this isn’t “bleeding edge” and so I didn’t feel it was a big deal to jump up to it already. Well over the past 3 weeks I’ve been getting this new alert [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: hardware, ilo, sim
Cisco joins the Server Market
Today’s big news: Cisco has come out with a single stop full solution rack for CPU, Disk & Network in one using all the best of virtualization technology of Storage, Server & Networking. Tight VMware integration, all Cisco hardware & lots of virtualization technology at 10G. Over the past several years I’ve kinda figured that [...]
In: Server Virtualization, VMware · Tagged with: cisco, server, Virtualization, VMware