The Internet Fishing Trawler: Wall Decoration Edition

Thanks to Vladan Seget over at Vladan.fr there are some cool new posters to hang on your wall. Poster one is [Hyper-V 2012 R2 architecture] (http://www.vladan.fr/windows-server-hyper-v-2012-r2-poster/) and poster two is [vSphere 5 memory management and monitoring] (http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-vsphere-5-memory-management-and-monitoring-poster/).
This is quite the head scratcher for you SMB folks, when you get the Silver level competency you lose the ability to log business critical tickets. This seems like yet another salvo in Microsoft’s war on SMBs to me…
In potentially interesting future developments news, Seagate have come out with their Kinetic Open Storage Vision. Basically they want to have each hard drive network connected so that they can all work together as a giant scale-out system. [Robin Harris at StorageMojo has the details] (http://storagemojo.com/2013/11/21/seagates-kinetic-open-storage-vision/).
If you are looking at virtualising SQL on VMware Eric Sloof has [the details on a free VMware training course] (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2519-Free-e-learning-course-Virtualizing-Microsoft-SQL-Server-2012-with-VMware-Fundamentals.html).
VMware have released version 5.5 of VDP with some cool new enhancements. [The vSphere Blog has all the details] (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/11/vdp-advanced-5-5-ga.html).