Virtualization Options

The below link is a nice starting point for finding out more about virtualization:

 

http://www.petri.co.il/virtual_virtualization_options_compared.htm

FindString Performance

Today I have been tasked with finding out if a particular string exists in a very large amount of data (18GB) that is not indexed.  The files are preparation files before being loaded in to a database.  The real shortcoming I find with findstr compared to grep is that findstr does not allow you to search select subdirectories without creating a batch file to script the work.  With grep, this can be done from the cli.