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The typical method employed for migrating existing workloads to ESX from physical machines involves instrumentation of the workload in the current environment, coupled with technical and business analysis to determine:

Workload suitability for virtualization ESX resource requirements to support the workload

The technical resource sizing method most often used leverages the VMware Capacity Planner. VMware capacity planner employs an […]

This is a collection of notes and links related to a dual installation of Solaris Nevada and Mac OS using Boot Camp. Although all of the links are helpful, this is a rapidly evolving set of technologies, thus there are some adjustments. Possibly the most important adjustment I ran into is that the Boot Camp […]

If you have groups defined in your .my.cnf file so that your scripts don’t need to specify database connections directly, such as from R or perl scripts, you may wish to use these group definitions for mysql scripting from bash. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any way to tell mysql to load login information from […]

The OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA) explores the formal concept of transforming and instantiating models. “In the MDA, models are first-class artifacts, integrated into the development process through the chain of transformations from Platform Independent Model (PIM) through Platform Specific Model (PSM) to coded application.” The “coded application” terminology is bit unfortunate, since the MDA concepts, […]