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Monthly Archives February 2008

Confusing

Sometimes, this industry confuses me. For example, HP’s DL140, which is a perfectly nice 1u rack server, costs just over £600 (including VAT – we’re not VAT registered) here at Insight. On that same page you can see the cost of adding in a second matching processor. Just under £600. By their logic, the entire [...]

Posted 23 February 2008 † John § Hardware § Money § Xen ‡ Comments (0) °

Virtual

A lot of what I’m going to write about here will be about virtualisation. My day job involves a lot of work with VMWare – Server, Workstation, and Infrastructure/ESX. My home workstation – a Mac OS X-running iMac – has VMWare Fusion to let me access Windows apps and test Linux set-ups. But where I’m [...]

Posted 23 February 2008 † John § VMWare § Xen ‡ Comments (0) °