Quantum-E

I’ve been meaning to write about this software for some months now, and it’s taken a failure of my hard disk to do so (It took me ages to remember the name of the thing, so I can re-download and install)

Almost quite by accident, I have found a couple of Dell resources that are useful as far as running VMware on Dell equipment is concerned.

They can be found here and here

As I’m in the process of setting up a VMware environment at work, I am more concerned about being able to view the state of the physical hardware that runs it – disk failures need to be detected as soon as they happen rather than after the second disk in the RAID5 array fails (and you lose everything!)…

Looking through vmetc’s website I came across an older post that discusses the best practice configuration for VMware host partitions – it’s a good read and very useful.

Here’s an interesting video from Doubletake about using their tools with VMware ESX hosts. This would be good in a situation where you wanted to make a 1 to 1 replica

This is a very useful article with pointers and links on how to downgrade a multi-processor HAL in Windows 2003.

See here

MacHeist are doing another one of their crazy software deals – and I think it’s great

I was reading a slightly older (previously presumed lost) copy of GoodWoodworking earlier today and noticed the section about it’s website. I had previously taken a look around the website…