Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Raising the Bar, Part V – vSphere 5.0 and other updates announced

Posted on July 12, 2011 by brian.wuchner

Today VMware unveiled several major improvements in Cloud computing. This was a good webcast, and it appears a link is available here http://www.vmware.com/cloud-infrastructure/business-critical-applications.html to watch the re-run if you are interested. CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod shared some … Continue reading →

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July 2011 – Busy couple of weeks

Posted on July 7, 2011 by brian.wuchner

The following several weeks will be very busy for VMware enthusiasts — especially in the Indianapolis area. Here is a run down of the upcoming events: Raising the Bar, Part V Tuesday July 12th 2011 at Noon ET Live webcast … Continue reading →

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vExpert 2011: Thank you!

Posted on July 1, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I woke up this morning to find a shocking email from @jtroyer…it started like this: We’re pleased to designate you as a vExpert 2011 as recognition of your contributions to the VMware, virtualization, and cloud computing communities. This is very … Continue reading →

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VMware ESXi Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) on Dell Server

Posted on June 21, 2011 by brian.wuchner

Last week I was informed of a customer who had a Purple Screen of Death on a Dell PowerEdge R810 running ESXi 4.1 Update 1. The stop screen showed the following reason: LINT1 motherboard interrupt. This is a hardware problem: … Continue reading →

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64bit DOS commands with a 32bit (two-bit) application

Posted on June 10, 2011 by brian.wuchner

This week I worked with a group of people that have a monitoring application — basically a glorified task scheduler for 32bit DOS applications. Among other things, this application attempts to check Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) failover status and send … Continue reading →

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