Edward L. Haletky, aka Texiwill, is an author, analyst, developer, technologist, and business owner. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development and TVP Strategy where he is also an Analyst. Edward is the Moderator and Host of the Virtualization Security Podcast as well as a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions. Edward is working on new books on Virtualization.
So you want to run VMware ESX or ESXi within VMware Workstation but you do not know if your laptop or desktop will support the functionality? It will work but if you do not have the proper hardware, it will run extremely slow, ie. take several hours to boot a VM. So you will need …
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I have had several Blue Gears blog sites and now have just this one. I have guest blogged at both ITworld and Cisco Subnet at NetworkWorld. While I would very much like to continue blogging at those locations, maintaining several blogs at the level required is a bit daunting, so I have centralized Blue Gears …
I will admit, I am a GNU/Linux developer and proud of it, but my customers run windows systems. So where does that leave me? Generally, either programming in portable C/C++, Perl, Python, or TCL. However, I wanted to give Power Shell a try and outside of a few minor (okay major) issues it works quite …
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Virtualization is all about redundancy. Redundant network switches, frabric switches, power supplies, and of course redundant hosts. Recently, I had to reorganize my entire data center. I was removing equipment and moving equipment. I was trying to reduce everything to either a single rack or a pair of half height racks to save on space, …
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Blue Gears will be my place for posting reviews of books, blogs, and other articles in the realm of virtualization, secure coding, forensics, and other topics. This is my home for things that do not fit the requirements of my other blogs: either too long, unrelated topic, or too technical. Thanks to Jason Boche (http://boche.net/blog) …
