So lately I’ve also joined the Twitter Hype, if you want to follow my micro blogging: http://twitter.com/depping. Maybe I’ll add a nice Twitter icon on the right if I can find the time…
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Marathon HA/FT vs VMware HA/FT
A couple of days ago I linked to Mike D. response to Marathon’s blogs. Mike has updated his original blog article and added a second article which responds to another blog by Marathon. Those who are interested in the difference between Marathon’s and VMware’s products should definitely read it. Especially if you’ve only read the Marathon posts so far. Mike D. sets the record straight!
a short outtake: “This wasn’t talked about but Marathon’s virtualization FT only works with Windows 2003 Standard or Enterprise SP1 today. VMware FT works with any of the over 70 certified guest operating systems that run on Virtual Infrastructure. The Marathon solution also sits deeply embedded within the OS.”
Marathon everRun vs VMware HA – Another Mess
a short outtake: “As you can now see, Marathon obviously has never touched a VMware host to setup VMware HA. They simply type what they want customers to hear on their webpages time and time again and rely on that FUD to get them sales.”
Marathon’s attack…
Marathon seems to be afraid of VMware’s Fault Tolerance:
Marathon’s team at VMworld got to sit in on the VMworld session Tuesday morning that covered VMware’s newly announced technology for fault tolerant VMs. While not bad for FT rookies, from what we saw, it’s a less than perfect solution for a lot companies that want to run business critical and mission critical applications in VMs. (source)
Mike D. responded to this blog on his blog… Read it and find out if Marathon is telling the truth or if these guys were sleeping when VMware announced this new product…. but I guess you can predict the outcome.
Planet V12 is flooded
Planet V12 is flooded with blogs and articles that deal about virtualization, clouds and all the other stuff we “nerds” talk about. Well I guess it’s time for something different. I’m gonna write about music. Some of you that know me for a bit longer than the 10 months that I’ve been blogging, know that I’ve always been into music. Actually before this blog started taking up all my spare time I wrote a lot of music reviews and did a lot of interviews. Those who are into hardcore-punk and or metalcore might know AsIce.net, and some of you might even remember MOW-Zine.com. I was part of both E-Zines. I started MOW-Zine back in 1997 and it became one of the most well known hardcore E-Zine’s in Europe. After 6 years of hard work I noticed that it was impossible to maintain the E-Zine with such a small team and we collaborated with BtB and Opposite and called our new website AsIce.net. AsIce.net is still around and going strong, definitely the best Hardcore-Punk E-Zine in Europe.
Anyway, that’s a bit of history… so as I said this is going to be about music. Although I used to listen mainly to hardcore-punk my taste and interest shifted a bit, this is what I’m listening to at the moment:
Anthrax – Madhouse
I think that Anthrax is one of the coolest bands around. Especially Madhouse is a song that’s really close to some of the hardcore bands I really love like for instance Leeway. Madhouse has got a great vibe, and Joey’s vocals are superb. When I started out listening to metal, Anthrax was one of the first bands that really struck me, and made me realize that I wasn’t like all the other top-40 listening kids in my school… From that moment on I started listening more and more heavy music, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Testament and Suicidal Tendencies were my favorite bands! These bands made such a big impression on me, they will be in my top 10 list forever I guess.
Oasis – Champaign Supernova
Don’t know what it is with English bands. For some reason I just love them. Oasis, Blur but also new stuff like Arctic Monkeys(old yellow bricks), The Rifles, and the Editors … I just love these bands. Although it’s not like the usual stuff I listen to for some reason this tends to stick. I usually listen to to this to clear my mind, when I’m driving home from a tough day at a customer site and I’m still thinking about stuff I should have left behind when I left the building. Champaign Supernova is one of the best songs, in my opinion, although the lyrics don’t make much sense but for some reason I just love it. And somehow it reminds me a lot of the good times I had in high school(and still) with my friends and family(you know who you are!).
Sick Of It All – Just Look Around
Sick Of It All is one of the best hardcore bands ever in my opinion. Especially their early stuff gets the adrenalin pumping. They’ve did so many live shows and still they play every show as if it’s their first, enthusiasm, energy, outspoken… those are the keywords. Sick Of It All is probably also the band that got me into hardcore in the first place. Their music was something I never heard before, I used to listen to metal a lot but Sick Of It All crushed all these bands with their fast, loud, aggressive and energetic sound without trying to sound demonic or pretend they are tough guys. Straight up old school hardcore just the way I like it.
Machine Head – Old
Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes is probably one of the best metal albums ever. Every single song on this album sounds furious and has got such a great groove. I picked this song/video because this was taped during the legendary Dynamo Open Air of 1995. Dynamo Open Air was the coolest festival around and in 1995 over 110.000 metalheads, punks, skins and hardcore kids visited this festival. (Yeah that’s right one hundred and ten thousand!) I’ve seen so many great bands perform on the DOA stages and got to know so many cool people. It’s a shame that DOA isn’t around anymore, thanks city of Eindhoven for destroying the best festival in the world.
Pearl Jam – State of love and trust
This song isn’t on the list because it’s just the best song Pearl Jam ever wrote. In my opinion this song also represents an era, Grunge. Bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden had a unique sound and created a complete new genre. Their music was raw, rock ‘n roll and alternative… something that I was heavily interested in at that moment. Nirvana and Pearl Jam have always been my favorite bands. I think that Nirvana is the best grunge band ever, but the album “Ten” by Pearl Jam is the best album ever made. Every single song on that album strikes me, I can listen to this album over and over again. Although State Of Love And Trust isn’t on this album I do think it represents what Pearl Jam stands for… just listen to it:
For those more into hardcore and or metal, check out this Mix Tape Archive @ AsIce.Net. It contains some great stories and tracks!
Hyper-V live migration not useful!
So can someone please explain to me why Microsoft is working on live migration and just did a demo(1, 2) of this new feature? Some of you might think, what the heck are you talking about? Well let me quote a couple of lines out of a MS Virtualization blog a couple of months ago:
We’ve drilled into these scenarios further and asked customers, who have currently have Live Migration capabilities, if they have changed their servicing process. In particular, when do they perform their hardware servicing. Is it during business hours 9-5? The overwhelming answer is, “No, we still schedule server downtime and notify folks of the scheduled downtime.”
Even customers with Live Migration still wait until off hours to service the hardware.
So if the customers are waiting until off hours, thus not needing this feature… why the hell spend all that precious time till 2010 to get this in 2008 R2!?! Why not spend your time useful and INNOVATE for a change? Come up with a feature that shocks the world.
Well let’s end this blog possitive, great idea to give away a stripped down standalone Hyper-V version away for free! Well it might sound as if I’m not serious, but I’m really curious how stripped down it is. What I understood is that it’s just Windows 2008 Core with Hyper-V pre-installed and all the other roles left out. Well we’ll just have to wait and see.