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 to run a few tests to determine if you have the proper hardware. However, first a few ground rules:

Continue reading “CPU Checks Required for Running Virtualization Hosts within VMware Workstation”

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 into just one blog moving forward.

I do not, at this time, plan on moving any of the content from these sites. However, any new material, will be posted to this centralized location and maintained within the Blog Roll Up within the Virtualization Wiki which is a companion to the Blue Gears blog.

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 well.

I documented some of my issues on my PowerShell for Windows and Linux developers TechTarget blog post, but since this post I have discovered other powershell issues.

Continue reading “Power Shell-isms: Tales from a Linux Developer”

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, power, and  cooling.

Continue reading “VMotion – Redundant Power Supplies Aid in Migration”

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) for sending me his WordPress plugins as well as blogsecurity.net for showing me how to hopefully secure my blog.

Welcome to Blue Gears, enjoy reading.