Public beta for Windows 2008 Service Pack 1 available

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Microsoft announced the release of the Windows 2008 SP1 public beta today at their Worldwide Partner Conference.    There are a couple of features being released in this service pack that are of particular interest, especially since they are geared toward enhancing the virtual desktop experience: Dynamic Memory lets Hyper-V administrators pool available memory on a physical host and dynamically [...]

Important patch for VMware vSphere iSCSI MPIO deployments

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

On April 1st, VMware released a set of patches for ESX/ESXi as they do every month.  Included with this patch is an important fix to their software iSCSI initiator described as follows: In a software iSCSI environment, the iSCSI connection might go offline when multiple VMkernel NICs in the same subnet are used to access [...]

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