I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for OS X (build 1848 and 1884) on my MacBook to put together demos for my Desktop Deployment seminar. I could have used VMware Workstation on my HP Compaq nc6120 like I do on my workstation, but my MacBook is faster and it gave me an excuse to try out Parallels Desktop. The following are the areas I think are important differences from my experience with VMware Workstation: Read the rest of this entry »

Just a heads up to a bug I found in Wordpress while trying to get my pages in order. Any backslashes I used in my code or scripts in pre tags would eventually be eaten by Wordpress and create garbage. Here’s the fix:

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2059

Over the last few weeks/months I’ve noticed something on our VMware Infrastructure cluster. All of the servers that we converted from physical to virtual servers use up much more CPU and total memory than equivalently taxed pure virtual machines doing the same tasks. Read the rest of this entry »