Archive for the 'VMware' Category

Virtualization options in Solaris running on Sun hardware

Virtualization has been a hot topic for quite some time. If you are using Solaris and Sun hardware you have had a number of options for many years already and the last few years there has been even more options made available. Today you have four different virtualization alternatives when you want to run Solaris […]

Playing with ZFS boot on Nexenta

I recently wrote about the newly released NexentaCP. One of the new great features is the integrated ZFS boot in the installer. You can now get a ZFS boot capable system with no work at all.
The default installation of Nexenta will create a ZFS pool called syspool and your root file system will be called […]

NexentaCP on VMware Fusion and OSX

Thanks to a post by Graeme Mathieson in his fabulous blog Notes from a messy desk I found out that VMware has ported their virtualization product to OSX. It is called Fusion and currently they are running a open beta program. Since I use a MacBook for all my desktop work at home I thought […]