i spend a lot of time on my weekends just reading up on stuff lately. for some reason i decided to revisit IRC and randomly joined a linux channel, started talking with some nice people. they pointed me to a few podcasts out there that they had done, and a live one that was done that very night. the whole experience was pretty interesting and i’m considering making my own podcast if i can find an appropriate topic to talk about…

(interesting) new features of virtual center 2.5 and esx 3.5:
locking down management abilities to virtual center and not esx hosts
plugins to vc (a converter plugin is available?)
update manager
consolidation wizard
and of course storage vmotion (relies on fibre channel SAN)

other items of note: there appears to be a native netbackup module for esx. also i just now learned about ESXi…sweet.

still reading softwar, larry ellison makes another good point. during meetings when no one has any facts the overpowering personality wins. but when someone has crystal clear facts there’s nothing to really argue over.