As a recently newish owner of a Lenovo Carbon X1 I was pretty amazed to see that Lenovo swapped the Fn and Ctrl keys around on the latest generation. It’s one of those things that you have got to ask, what (wtf) were they thinking ? a bit like Windows 8 and the Start Menu really LOL The… Read More »
I was running up a new VM in VMware last night (Windows NT4) and after installing needed to install SP6a. Only problem was after first install of Windows NT there was no tools (needs SP6a) and no network so no easy way to get the files into the NT4 VM. So I thought just mounting an ISO would… Read More »
So, in part one I went over the hardware and the install. But you ask, how does it all work, can I do real work on such a setup? I guess my answer to that is that this is a lab, but I also have some stuff here doing useful work. I have all my local network monitoring… Read More »
I recently blew away all my low power vm lab running XenServer 6.5 and installed Vmware ESXi 6.0. Why I am not exactly sure but I just got bored with XenServer. Not that it’s doesn’t work or anything, in fact in my environment it did probably mostly everything I wanted. However I usually do this once a year,… Read More »
I recently blew away all my low power vm lab running XenServer 6.5 ( http://www.hardstaff.com/lower-power-vm-lab-pt-ii/ and http://www.hardstaff.com/lower-power-vm-lab/ ) and installed Vmware ESXi 6.0. Why I am not exactly sure but I just got bored with XenServer. Not that it’s doesn’t work or anything, in fact in my environment it did probably mostly everything I wanted. However I usually do this… Read More »
If you’ve been putting this off because Dell say it’s not supported fear not. The only gotcha I have found is a simple one to fix. Two issues actually but they are related. I’d also suggest a clean install if you can. I tried an upgrade and while it worked I would not recommend it. The first problem… Read More »
This has been a while coming but anyways better late then ever. Since I wrote the original article I have been using a number of different hyper-visors, also the hosts number has grown to three. Here’s how it went. To start with I had everything running with VMWare which I had some interest in as it was what… Read More »
Just to pick up a few points here about the Surface as my main work device / PC. Our standard environment is Windows 7 and we are testing Windows 8. So I often run Windows 7 in a VM on the Surface. Now that’s pretty cool seeing Windows 7 running in a VM on top of Windows 8… Read More »
Nice surprise in the mail today, my Surface Pro dock arrived. I have been using the Surface as my primary work PC / device now for nearly 4 months. ie this is what I use for work all day, and when I take a tablet to meetings it’s the same device just unplugged. To now I have been… Read More »
I am documenting here some work I have been doing over the last couple of weeks to get together a mini low power data centre (lab or private cloud if you like). What I wanted to do at the start was to have something I could run up Vmware ESXi on to get to to know this software… Read More »