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Archive for February, 2009

Georgia Southern University, located southeast of Atlanta in Statesboro, GA, has introduced a program to teach VMware virtualization technology to the students of it’s College of Information Technology. As one of only 10 universities in the world designated as a VMware Academy, Georgia Southern is teaching it’s students official VMware courses and certifying students as VCPs (VMware Certified Professionals). The program was made possible by VMware and a donation of computer equipment valued at $126,000 from Norcross, GA based Corus360 and Canvas Systems.

Read more about the VMware Academy on the Georgia Southern University Advantage web page.

Corus Consulting and Canvas Systems are actually the “other half” of Softchoice Optimus Solutions, my employer, that was not aquired by Softchoice Corporation in January 2008. I congratulate and applaud Corus and Canvas Read the rest of this entry »

A new patch for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 3 was released last week that fixes the previously reported iSCSI and FC Alert – “Queue for device has been blocked” issue. The fix was part of a bundle of patches released for ESX 3.5, ESXi 3.5 and ESX 3.0.x products.

Duncan’s summary post over at yellow-bricks.com pointed me to the new VMware KB article specific to the patch with the I/O alert fix: VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200901401-SG: Updates VMkernel, VMX, and hostd

Upon reading the KB article I noticed that the VI Client NTP configuration issue I have posted about, and continue to run into, has also been fixed.

Read VMware’s KB for all “the other issues” corrected along with some information about applying the patches with or without Update Manager.

VMware, IBM BladeCenter S and N-series storage to be used by all 32 NFL Teams

Not only did the National Football League (NFL) rely on IBM and VMware for the server infrastructure at it’s biggest game of the year, Super Bowl XLIII, but a CRN.com article by Joseph Kovar reveals that IBM VAR Vicom “provided 34 SANs based on IBM’s N-series storage products, as well as a server virtualization solution based on VMware to consolidate the league’s offices.”

“IBM’s sponsorship of the Super Bowl and its direct deal with the NFL for the Super Bowl infrastructure was key to signing that larger deal, which includes one chassis to be installed in each of the 32 team’s IT infrastructures, said Vic Verola, vice president of sales for Vicom Computer Services, a Farmingdale, N.Y.-based solution provider and long-time IBM partner.”

Dear Arthur Blank,

If the Falcons need local support of your new VMware Virtual Infrastructure and IBM hardware let me know. Read the rest of this entry »