I’ve been looking for this one for some time now. I know there are several tools out there that do the same but none of them are Freeware! Check out WinDirStat. It’s free and gives you a great overview of which folder contains the MB’s! This can be very useful on fileservers when your disks are magically filling up with all sorts of “garbage”. Especially the “extension lists” is very useful, at one of my previous employers we noticed about 25GB of mp3’s and a whole bunch of iso files on our fileserver which definitely should’t have been there! In other words, pick it up! This one is useful! (the source)
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VMware podcasts
I don’t know if everyone listens to the VMware podcasts or not, but there are some cool podcasts on this page!
The topics range from Planet V12 blogging to advanced HA stuff. Definitely worth listening to! Maybe I’m just a geek, but I have this on as background music all the time… 🙂
Book: Deploying the VMware Infrastructure
There’s a new book launched at VMworld Vegas 2008! This book is written by John Arrasjid(VMware), Daniel Conde(VMware), Karthik Balachandran(VMware), Gary Lamb(INX) and Steve Kaplan(INX).
You can pre-order the book via Digital-Guru, and here’s there description just to give you an idea: Deploying the VMware Infrastructure is an introduction to the world of VMware virtualization technology written by hands-on experts in the field. This booklet explains virtualization, enumerates its many benefits, and describes a set of real-world use cases. Overviews are provided for each of the VMware server virtualization, desktop virtualization, and automation and infrastructure management products; and detailed information is given about virtualizing your infrastructure-from building a VMware Infrastructure and selecting candidates for migration, to managing and optimizing the virtual environment. Other topics include security and disaster recovery, virtual desktop infrastructure, and advanced capabilities such as high availability, virtual machine snapshots and consolidated backups. This booklet is highly recommended for anyone interested in virtualizing their IT infrastructure or expanding their knowledge of VMware Infrastructure, including managers, technical staff, and those new to virtualization or VMware technology.
Two new pdf’s!
There are two new pdf’s online…
Management and Automation Products: Deployment Approaches and Considerations:
VMware Management and Automation products provide datacenter automation solutions in IT service delivery and business continuity. These products can be deployed across a shared VMware Infrastructure platform. This paper presents technical guidance and considerations when deploying these products together on a shared VI platform. [Link]
Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines:
This paper describes how timekeeping hardware works in physical machines, how typical guest operating systems use this hardware to keep time, and how VMware products virtualize the hardware. [Link]
What’s going on?
What’s going on… the amount of views / hits have almost doubled over the last couple of weeks. I received more hits in August already than I did in July. Here are some stats that the hosting company provided me, unique hits:
dec – 1225
jan – 7700
feb – 13100
maart – 13300
april – 19233
mei – 19034
jun – 20783
jul – 27564
Aug – 36159
Last month I had 9017.39 MB of traffic. This month I already have 3039.94 MB.
And I just checked this in WordPress and see the same numbers coming up. Normally I would hit around 1200 a day on the WordPress Stats. In July this went up to 1800 and now I’ve reached 2700…. I have a total of 165,952 views in 9 months…
Any other bloggers noticing the same trend? Just talking with my colleague about it and could this be related to the ESXi hype… hmmm,
Just narrowed it down, started the 28th of July. Indeed the day that ESXi 3.5 u2 was released and free of charge!