August 2008 Archives

So VMWare have been rather kind and released ESXi as a free download. This is pretty cool and makes me wonder if it's worth installing on every new machine we purchase by default. The additional flexibility of being able to add additional VM's to any low utilisation machine on a whim is rather appealing and the thin nature of ESXi means the performance penalty should be negligible even if it's never used.

I've never played with ESXi before and am interested to see how it stacks up against Xen and VMWare Server. Now to find a suitable guinea pig machine...

An additional component for Windows Server 2003 which prevents users from seeing folders which they don't have access rights for. I tend to find it extremely useful as I can instantly see if permissions are correct from a users workstation as well as adding a little layer of obscurity to things. Available from Microsoft Download Centre.

... and it was a mightily angsty beast with grrrr and arrrgh and much anguish.

And now I'm 28 so you're getting a sysadmin blog.

Ha!