Reviews

Hewlett-Packard has released the details of their new product line the Gen8 (don’t call me G8) servers. The new line as, you would expect, has all of the performance increases that seem necessary when coming out with a new product. The new Sandy Bridge XEON processors are onboard, they’ve increased the number of DIMM slots, increased the total amount of memory allowed per system while also increasing the memory speed supported. HP has also switched over to PCI 3.0 which is providing much faster speeds for PCI devices. ...

VMworld 2011 was held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Over 25,000 attendees this year. It was held in Las Vegas, but the sites and attractions didn’t take away from the event. Despite all the distractions that Las Vegas can provide, there was too much going on at VMworld to get caught up in the city. My favorite part of VMworld was the Hands on Labs. After signing up for the specific lab you wanted, you were ushered to your assigned desk. There were dual screen workstations setup at every desk and very straight forward instructions on how to complete the labs. These labs would get very in depth and would show you why and what was happening behind the scenes when you would perform your operations. I especially enjoyed the Netapp lab. ...