Chris_Wood

=IT BIT/Presentation= My IT BIT or Presenation was about a program called VirtualBox, and allows you to create Virtual machines inside your operating system, as an example you could be running XP on your computer, and run a variant of Linux within a window. VirtualBox is quite simple a open source (free) version of VMWare Workstation, which isn't free, and being a 10th the size as Workstation, VirtualBox does not take up much space, but still provides lots of features.

Here is my handout, which runs through how to setup a Virtual Disk, Virtual Machine and any relevant configuration settings.



Plus here is the power point presentation. [|VirtualBox.ppt]

=Fremantle E-Tech Networking Conference= A group of people from the Rockingham Tafe and I attended a Networking Conference held by the Diploma students at the E-Tech Tafe in Fremantle. Their were two speeches, the first speech was presented by two people from VMWare talking about their products and what they are looking to achieve in the near future. They talked about their Hyper-V and ESXi technology, a brief look at Cloud Computing, plus how they seem to be moving away from the desktop for good and looking to a future on servers.

The second speech presented by a representative of CISCO talked about Data Centers, and the following points also:
 * Consolidation, of servers, storage, SAN etc
 * Blade Servers
 * Application Optimization
 * Updating hardware components (routers, switches, etc) without shutting down.
 * Cisco Labs running with 40 and 100 Gigabit ethernet networks
 * SFP+ cables
 * Network Virtualization, working with VMWare
 * Virtual Switching between Virtualized servers
 * Virtual Blade servers
 * 8 switches physicalll, 1 logically
 * Supports up to 40 Gb bandwidth
 * Soft Switching, running CISCO IOS capabilties
 * Unified I/O
 * Many networks, one infrastructure
 * FC over Ethernet
 * Fibre Channel over Ethernet
 * Menlo ASIC merging FC and Ethernet
 * Nexus 7010 chassis supports 4.5 Terabits of speed, 15 Terabits in the near future
 * Application Accelleration
 * WAN optimization deployment
 * Compression, less bandwidth when transferring data
 * Pattern Matching
 * A request is made for data, then another request is made from another computer, a link is sent to that computer how to get that information from the first computer, saves re-sending data.
 * TFO over TCP