ESX 4.1 (update n) will be the last installable version of ESX to retain the service console. There is no upgrade path for ESX to ESXi, you must reinstall to migrate or upgrade. Upgrading is a great reason to consider modernizing your virtualization infrastructure. VMWare currently recommends that new deployments of vSphere 4.x are done on [...]
A friend recently pointed me at a project called mcollective. The Marionette Collective aka. mcollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. An introduction to mcollective is on the projects wiki page. We’ve attempted to think out of the box a bit designing this system by not relying on central [...]