Mr. Bump on Feb 9th, 2009Shootin Ducks On A Pond
Sometimes finding something to write about is difficult. Other times ideas just fall into your lap.
If you use virtualization, do yourself a tremendous favor and run memtest86 or memtest86+ on your server before it goes into production. We’ve been fighting an ESX server Purple Screen of Death problem for three or four weeks to long […]
Mr. Bump on Feb 4th, 2009How Did You Old Timers Do It?
I’ve often asked some variation of that question in relation to the internet. How they heck did you do a job in IT before the internet? Having graduated college in 1998 I’ve never had a job where the internet was not available.
I’ve now moved that question to virtualization. I’m not sure I could do my job without […]
Mr. Bump on Jan 8th, 2009Perpetual Loop
Sometimes the oddest things make you laugh. After a few hours of fire fighting tonight (I’ll get to that in a minute) I walked out of the office laughing my ass off. I had left a note for El Sidekick on the whiteboard with a message that included ”read your email.” I had sent several emails to our group and […]
Mr. Bump on Sep 17th, 2008Nuff Said
Only one update from El Sidekick is needed to describe his week in Vegas at VMworld…
Ok it was only a minor inter national insadent. They forgave me, but it wasent all My. Fault
Mr. Bump on Sep 16th, 2008Wild Wild Virtual West
El Sidekick is at VMworld this week expanding his mind and stress testing his liver so I figured I might as well be doing a little virtual knowledge attaining myself. I installed the trial version of XenServer 5.0 Enterprise Edition along with XenCenter. I spent more time tracking down hardware to install this on than the […]
Mr. Bump on Jul 15th, 2008Its Good to Play Well With Others
I came across this article tonight about Project Kensho, a set of tools by Citrix Systems that allows virtual environments to be more independent of hypervisors. I think Simon Crosby, the CTO of the Virtualization and Management Division at Citrix, is spot on with this.
Every large customer I talk to doesn’t want to bet the […]
Mr. Bump on May 11th, 2008Happy Mothers Day and Other Stuff
Happy Mothers Day to all of the mothers out there. I did a good job of getting the mother in my house good and pissed at me for no reason last night and this morning. Last night about 9:00 PM I acted like I needed to run out and get a Mothers Day card for […]
Mr. Bump on Mar 20th, 2008‘Tis the season
Another day, another event. Life is rough for this guy! That actually sounds a little arrogant. This afternoon was an event hosted by SKT/Cisco/EMC to go along with March Madness. I hope your bracket is looking better than mine. A buddy once said to me “when you walk along the […]
Mr. Bump on Nov 14th, 2007Eyes Wide Open
I wrote yesterday about the “command center” we quickly (and securely!) set up for a need within the community. Turns out all of our efforts were wasted. Long story short the command center was set up for the search of a missing girl. As this story explains, the girl simply ran away.
This afternoon I had […]