ESXi Multi-NIC & Multi-VLAN vMotion on UCS

I’ve been deploying a Cisco UCS Chassis with multiple Cisco B230 M2 Blades. Yet the uplinks switches of the Fabric Interconnect are medium-Enterprise sized Switches, and not some Nexus 5K or better. In a vSphere 5.0 cluster designs you add one or more NICs to...

vCloud Director 1.5 database creation using Transact-SQL

In the past few weeks I have had to reinstall and clean up the vCloud Director 1.5 database on SQL Server 2008 R2. After a few times doing it using the SQL Server Management Studio GUI, I decided to automated it using four simple Transact-SQL scripts, so it would save...

Added iPad optimization to this WordPress site

Onswipe have added a new plugin for WordPress that optimizes the content of a blog for viewing on the iPad. I have now enabled the functionality here. The Onswipe plugin has also been enabled on wordpress.com for all users having their blogs located there.

WordPress upgrade done.

I have been running WordPress 2.2 (patched to 2.4) for the past 3 years. I guess it was time to clean-up and take the opportunity to upgrade WordPress to the latest release 3.1 Just need to figure out some of the widgets and the themes, but I’ll get there sooner...

HTC Hero – a quick review

This is only a quick review of the 1 day I had the HTC Hero with me. There are plenty of other reviews online about the screen, the interface and the inputs etc… I will only quickly address the things I had the time to test and use. I purchased a HTC Hero for my...