Webninja » Work http://www.webninja.com Like you care... Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:47:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en Mac+VMware update http://www.webninja.com/2006/11/14/macvmware-update/ http://www.webninja.com/2006/11/14/macvmware-update/#comments Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:41:39 +0000 Caleb Shay http://www.webninja.com/2006/11/14/macvmware-update/ Well, apparently VMware has heard the cries of OSX users…sort of. VMware for OSX is in “Friends and Family” beta right now, and hopefully will see public consumption soon. The new product is called VMware Fusion and is apparently a cross between Player and Workstation. This does NOT make me happy. Honestly, I didn’t even care if I actually had virtualization for my mac, I just want a damn ESX client!

]]> http://www.webninja.com/2006/11/14/macvmware-update/feed/ Why two servers? http://www.webninja.com/2006/05/13/why-two-servers/ http://www.webninja.com/2006/05/13/why-two-servers/#comments Sat, 13 May 2006 15:32:43 +0000 Caleb Shay http://www.webninja.com/2006/05/13/why-two-servers/ So, I’m reading a blog post this morning by an ex-Apple employee talking about working in AppleCare support, and while most of it is just a rant, one part of it really spoke to me.
I’m going to be without my computer for a week?! It’s a business critical machine! I can’t be without it!…If something is important to you, you spend money to make it reliable. If you cannot make it reliable, then you make it redundant. It’s a life lesson more than a computer lesson.
Not long ago we were talking to a client who was just planning a move to ESX and wanted to know how many host servers he would need for the number of machines that were being virtualized. We looked at what they currently had and how hard they were working and said “It will all run on one 4-way, so get two of them.” They seemed shocked that we would so blatantly recommend getting more hardware than they “needed”.

Why do people have such a hard time understanding the importance of backups and redundancy? It becomes even more important in the virtualization space where a single failure could mean losing 20 servers, not just one.

]]> http://www.webninja.com/2006/05/13/why-two-servers/feed/ esXpress http://www.webninja.com/2006/05/03/esxpress-2/ http://www.webninja.com/2006/05/03/esxpress-2/#comments Wed, 03 May 2006 20:59:21 +0000 Caleb Shay http://www.webninja.com/2006/05/03/esxpress-2/ Finally…we launched the official stable release of esXpress today. Go get it!

esXpress

]]> http://www.webninja.com/2006/05/03/esxpress-2/feed/ esXpress http://www.webninja.com/2006/03/08/esxpress/ http://www.webninja.com/2006/03/08/esxpress/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:37:54 +0000 Caleb Shay http://www.webninja.com/2006/03/08/esxpress/ Okay, it’s blatant astroturfing, but I don’t care. The company I work for is about to release our new backup product for VMware ESX Server, and it is pretty bad-ass if I do say so myself.

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