http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2008/04/22/a-classic-case-of-moving-the-goalposts/ Beyond the Manual, with Mike Laverick (VCI, VCP, CCI, CCEA, MCT, MCSE) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:25:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2008/04/22/a-classic-case-of-moving-the-goalposts/comment-page-1/#comment-27176 Things that make you go hmmmm - April 25, 2008 | VM /ETC Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:36:11 +0000 http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=535#comment-27176 [...] A classic case of moving the goalposts “You see Microsoft [is] accusing VMware of producing technology that does what it says in the book. Perhaps Microsoft should take a leaf out of VMware’s book for a change! Does Microsoft dare to claim that QuickMigrate is different and is there for availability[?] I think not, because you should never take a hammer to [do the] job of spanner.” “So HA is not Continuous HA. Agreed. That’s why VMware have been working on continuous HA as demo’d at VMworld 2007. The founder of VMware pulled out the power - and the VM just kept running on another ESX host. [...] [...] A classic case of moving the goalposts “You see Microsoft [is] accusing VMware of producing technology that does what it says in the book. Perhaps Microsoft should take a leaf out of VMware’s book for a change! Does Microsoft dare to claim that QuickMigrate is different and is there for availability[?] I think not, because you should never take a hammer to [do the] job of spanner.” “So HA is not Continuous HA. Agreed. That’s why VMware have been working on continuous HA as demo’d at VMworld 2007. The founder of VMware pulled out the power – and the VM just kept running on another ESX host. [...]

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