July 2011
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New vSphere 5 Licensing & Oracle on vSphere
Following a Twitter conversation between myself and @aus_effendi, Oracle-on-vSphere guru extraordinaire, I thought it might help to create a short post on the implications of Oracle licensing on vSphere given the new vSphere 5 licensing model.
First, I won’t go into much detail on the new vSphere licensing, and I haven’t made my full opinion of it yet so this definitely isn’t a...
May 2011
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Profiling Oracle 11g Performance on vSphere with...
One of my larger projects recently has been to virtualize a Tier 1 Java application on vSphere for the State of Wisconsin. This application previously ran on WebSphere 5 and Oracle 9i, on some older physical boxes. As part of the upgrade we’re moving to WebSphere 7 and Oracle 11g, all 100% virtualized on vSphere. It was a big sell for the CIO and department, and so far it has been working...
July 2010
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New Network Design but Old Security Models?
We’re full into our core network design here at our Greenfield deployment. A couple of interesting discussions have come up around the design, particularly in terms of Cisco Virtual Device Contexts (vDC) on the Nexus gear.
First, here’s what we have already sitting on the dock or in the racks:
(2) Nexus 7010 Core Switches w/ 3 fabric modules and 2 supp’s
(4) 8-Port 10 GbE...
June 2010
2 posts
Weird Parallax Distortion
I have equipment…in fact, some of it is set to hit the dock tomorrow! And yet, I still have no idea what will be running on it. It’s like some weird chicken and egg experiment gone completely wrong. The list of requirements is short and gray, while the list of assumptions is filling up faster than I can manage. It’s making this design pretty tough. Welcome to my twilight...
DCF: Day 2
I’m just starting my second day as an IT Admin/Engineer (position still isn’t really defined) with the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families!
Brief background: DCF was built by taking the families component from the old dept. of health and family services, and part of the department of workforce development. DWD still supports most of our IT infrastructure. As of last week...
March 2009
2 posts
Mouse Gestures in Safari 4 Beta
I’ve been forcing myself to play with Safari Beta 4 recently instead of firefox. The latest version of the browser seems to have a lot of ripped off features that make other browsers good, including a few things ripped off from Apple themselves (cover flow bookmarks). Lifehacker tells a better story: http://lifehacker.com/5159907/a-hands-on-look-at-safari-4s-crashy-eye-candy
The one thing...
