So Ireland is famous for more than just spuds. black creamy delicious drinks, green things, housing the majority of the leading global tech companies and good craic…

For example:

• Aircraft ejection seats – James Martin 1944
• The Submarine – John Holland 1878

Credit to goireland.com for the image

Feel free to comment if you know of any more inventions that should be listed…

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A great illustration from mbaonline about what happens on the internet in one day

vCloud Director is the cloud solution offering from VMware that was originally targeted at service providers to provide cloud based servers out to their customers.  We are now seeing a much greater uptake from private companies utilizing this suite to deliver internal systems back into their organisations – great flexibility in service delivery with the ability to provide self service features back to the business…

Below is a quote from VMware explaining vCloud:
 
“Manage resources more efficiently by logically pooling infrastructure capacity into policy-based virtual datacenters.  VMware vCloud Director integrates with existing VMware vSphere deployments and extends capabilities like Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch, to provide elastic compute, storage and networking interfaces across multiple clusters. Using virtual datacenters built on top of vSphere, VMware vCloud Director enable resources to be provisioned without the need for repeated configuration or significant maintenance.”

To get a more technical view of the solution be sure to check out the following links.  They are from a series of excellent posts by Dave Hill of http://www.virtual-blog.com on VMware vCloud Director

vCloud Director part 1 – Overview

vCloud Director part 2 – Concepts

vCloud Director part 3 - Allocation models

vCloud Director part 4 – Networking

From the How to series – Bootable ESXi 5 USB in 5 easy steps

ESXi 5 has been out in the wild for quite some time now and most of you should be looking at upgrading at some stage.  Here is a quick way to make a bootable USB stick in 5 easy steps…

1. Download a copy of unetbootin from here

2. Grab a copy of the ESXi ISO from the VMware site here (you might need to register for the download)

3. Fire up unetbootin application

4.  Choose ISO and browse to the ESX ISO file

5. Press OK.

Thats it -

note: Check boot sequence of server when you fire it up to target USB first

This site is undergoing massive changes so check back in a few weeks for all the latest on Virtualisation and Cloud computing.

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Admin.