Tristan Watkins on IT Infrastructure
Currently viewing the tag: "VMWare"
Late last year my colleagues and I tried to distil the tasks that impede SharePoint developer productivity. Then I ran those tests on EC2, Hyper-V and VMware Workstation, with the latter two virtualisation technologies running on a desktop, an older [...]
In the last couple of weeks I’ve received notification of two important updates regarding Amazon Web Services. I thought I’d share them here, as they are both relevant to use of SharePoint 2010 on EC2 and I’ve seen no mention of them elsewhere. If you’re interested in this broader topic, I’ve covered it in detail [...]
Drum roll please! At long last, I bring you the results of a great deal of testing. Here’s the background:
SharePoint Development Productivity and Virtualisation Technologies SharePoint 2010 Development Environment Performance Tests
I’ve said my preamble in those posts, so I’ll [...]
As I indicated in my last post, I’ve been plundering the depths of SharePoint development productivity in recent months. Understanding the context established in that post is pretty essential to understanding what follows here. In a nutshell, I’m trying to improve system performance for current users of [...]
In the near future, I’ll be discussing the results of the SharePoint Development productivity testing that I’ve been working on for some time. A key part of the background to that story is a choice to virtualise SharePoint, and within that, a choice of virtualisation technology. In this post I’ll be reviewing the problem in [...]
I’ve just finished watching Virtual PC Guy’s TechEd video on the forthcoming Dynamic Memory update for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The beta release of the service pack is due in July. The video is fairly lengthy, at around 80 minutes, but is well worth a watch if you’re interested and find [...]
In the first part of this series, I introduced the pros and cons of various SharePoint development approaches and the objectives of this system redesign. In this part I will focus on design choices and conclusions, starting with the core technology.
[...]
I was just looking at the Virtual PC Guy blog about the combined on/offline VDI in a forthcoming VMWare release when I noticed that he says he has six monitors on his desk at work. Six!!! I remember having three (when I also had three computers) on my desk in [...]
Recent Comments
- JohnLong on Adding Drivers to Windows Deployment Services Boot Images
- Boog on How to enable Lync audio within a Remote Desktop session
- Tristan Watkins on How to enable Lync audio within a Remote Desktop session
- Perl on How to enable Lync audio within a Remote Desktop session
- ShamrockSoft on No Lossless Audio With Zune
Categories
- Administrivia (1)
- Authentication (10)
- Business Continuity (2)
- Client applications (17)
- Consultancy and Design (17)
- Hardware (9)
- IT Management (12)
- Miscellaneous (5)
- Mobile (3)
- Networking (18)
- Office 365 Grid (3)
- Performance (26)
- Power (2)
- Security (19)
- SharePoint (75)
- Unified Communications (3)
- Virtualisation (30)
- Windows (52)
Tags
Active Directory administration Amazon Web Services ASUS BLOB Caching certificates Claims Cloud DCOM Dell development DNS EC2 Graphics Hyper-V IaaS ICS IIS Information Rights Management Intel IRM Lync NUMA PowerShell RMS SAML Search SEO Service Application SharePoint 2007 SharePoint 2010 SLAT STSADM Timer Job User Information User Profile User Profiles Virtual Machine VMWare w3wp Windows 7 Windows Deployment Services Windows Server 2008 R2 WorkgroupArchives by Month
