Taking its name from the very popular Microsoft Weekly round-up “WinInfo: Short Takes”. This weekly blog post offers an often irrervent oveview of the weeks virtualization news. OR you could call it handy rip-off/aggregration of other blogs!

More vCPUs doesn’t always mean faster/quicker
This  interesting blog post from the Vooom! part of the vmware.com blogs. Covers a very interesting topic called “Simultanous Scheduling”. So you regale your fellow guests at the cocktail parties you attend – with your erudite knowledge of how vCPU’s are scheduled on to physical CPUs. My you must be sooo interesting at those cocktail parties – please invite me!

http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2008/06/esx-scheduler-s.html

PowerShell/VMware Roundtable
This is round table discussion/podcast on all things PowersHell related   I was invited by John Troyer of the VMTN to join in, but really my knowledge/understanding of PowersHell is pretty rudimentary. I know what it does, know what I want it do – it’s just the typing of the code itself I’m not so hot on…!

http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/06/powershell-and.html

VMware Site Recovery Manager Forum Opens
Well, its been beta for sometime, but now we have GA version – we have forum just dedicated just to SRM. But I would have to say its bit lonly there. There’s only me and my mate, Mr-T who hanging out there. Mr-T is aka “Stuart Thompson” of ComputerCenter UK. He’s my buddy from the London VMware User Group Steering Committee. We’ve been calling each other all this week – because the forum isn’t really very active. Please come and make use fell less alone. Right now, were Billy No Mates. What’s really annoying is Mr-T is ALREADY beating me on forum posts. He’s got 2. And I’ve got 1….
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/mgmt/srm?view=discussions

VMworld Europe 2009 – Canne
Well, its in surrender-monkey land again.  Sorry, no disrepect to my Galic-chums. But for the nTh time in the row next years VMworld will be in France. There other European country’s you know. I mean the United Kingdom is practically in Europe now! . Anyway, Richard G of run-virtual.com let it slip that it will be Canne-again slated for the Feb 24th till 26th. Well, at least it isn’t in Germany. Otherwise would have to go into my Basil Fawlty impression “Don’t mention war!!!”

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