VM Squad

I know it’s been blogged about before, but I needed the location for the sysprep files today and found a nice list of download links and locations of where the contents need to go.

Sysprep files and locations

Well I’m not really sure of the exact process for starting a VMUG but I’m going to try and start. VMware has a few details but they seem to apply to already established user groups.There seems to be some interest judging from the Oklahoma City section of the VMware forum. I’ve registered a domain name (okcvmug.org) and am wanting anyone in the Oklahoma City area to please stay tuned to the website for a meeting date and details. We’ve got sponsors for a location and lunch and hopefully we can schedule a speaker or demo of some sorts.

Registered users will have the option to sign up for a newsletter so you’ll never miss any meetings or new information.

CharlesTwin from the Petri.co.il Forums has started a thread about two applications he wrote to help gain knowledge about VMware ESX 3.5. He requests that you simply email him with some info about your knowledge about VMware and your quest to learn more and he’ll email the applications to you. He’s already responded to my request for the apps so hopefully i’ll get them soon so I can write an article about them.

For more information check out his thread over at the Petri forums. Click Here

Well I noticed that Windows 7 Beta 1 was added to our MSDN account the other day so I decided to throw in on my personal laptop to test drive it for awhile.

I had been running Ubuntu 8.10 but it just wasn’t working out for me with all of the windows only apps I need to use daily at work. So far I’m pretty impressed with this latest beta from MS. The installation was quicker then the previous version of Windows 7 and it just seems to run a bit quicker also. Once I found my wireless drivers on Dell’s website, Windows Update was able to find the drivers for my audio. For those interested I’m running this on a Dell Latitude D600 with a Pentium M 1.6ghz with 1gb of ram.

Well this past week a few of our upper executives toured our DR facility. Thankfully they were wowed by the facility and the capabilities of it. An idea we have been tossing around and discussing inside of our department is moving our production equipment to the DR site and bringing back the equipment we have there essentially reversing our DR plan.

I had a chance to talk with our CEO after they had returned from the DR site and was surprised to hear him tell me that he thinks it’s a great idea. With four remote offices and more issues every week with the local power grid I am also behind this idea.

So this month we get to start testing how well the applications will run over our 100mbit T-LAN from Cox and if we need to upgrade that once replication on our LeftHand modules start. We will also have to create a new replication schedule for all of the volume groups but overall I can wait for this to happen.

Parallels must be feeling the holiday spirit these days. I noticed on SlickDeals.net this afternoon a posting about Parallels Workstation being given away. Simply register, download the installer for your OS and check your email for the activation key. I love these free giveaways companies do, it really gets their product into peoples hands who may not have tried their software otherwise.

Link for registeration