Tag: virtualization

  • MySQL Conf 2009 Preview: Scalability and HA Tutorial

    Like most people, and with just over a week to go before the conference, I’m putting the finishing touchs on my various presentations. First up for me, on Monday afternoon, is my tutorial: Scale Up, Scale Out, and High Availability: Solutions and …

  • My Sessions at UC2009

    I’m speaking at the User Conference this year, with a half-day tutorial and three further sessions. The running theme is performance, both in terms of the performance of your queries, and in terms of scaling up. Scale Up, Scale Out, and High Avail…

  • Using static disks in Parallels for performance

    Using a static disk, or even just multiple disks, within Parallels can make a big difference to performance. This is particularly true with Windows virtual machines within OS X; I’ve managed to change the boot time from about 30 seconds to under 2…

  • Parallels Update

    Parallels for Mac has been updated, but its the stuff beyond the highlight elements that I find most interesting. The headline elements are: Support for the new Mac Pro (and up to 3.5GB RAM Support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Experimental support …