Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Fantastic Tavern: London
Posted by on January 28, 2010
Bit of a diversion from the norm this evening, I attended an event called “The Fantastic Tavern” – which is a community focused series of events on a variety of creative and social-media type topics, as I normally live on the infrastructure side of bringing such concepts to life I thought it would be [...]
Running a VM from a RAM Disk
Posted by on January 26, 2010
I posted earlier about some of my experiments with the FusionIO solid state storage card, SSD’s and the feature I spotted in Starwind to create a virtual disk from RAM – these are the quick results I see when running a Windows 2003 R2 virtual machine from a RAM disk. This is done by [...]
Running VMs from a FusionIO Solid State Storage Card and Consumer-grade SSD
Posted by on January 25, 2010
Following on from Eric’s post on running VMs from SSD’s at this page, and my previous experiments at using SSD’s to run VMs I thought I would post up my initial (non-scientific) findings from the FusionIO card that I have been loaned. FusionIO make solid state storage cards that come packaged as PCIe x8 [...]
Share a RAM disk via iSCSI…run VM’s from it?
Posted by on January 25, 2010
I found this very clever feature in the StarWind vSAN product that allows you to allocate a chunk of physical memory on a host (i.e real RAM) and present it out as an iSCSI target – imagine the possibilities for running virtual machines from that? watch this space \
Nothing happens when I try to run Starwind software Manager on Windows 2008 R2
Posted by on January 24, 2010
I am doing some work with a FusionIO solid state flash storage card at the moment (more on this in a future post) as part of this I need a windows based iSCSI target for my testing, and rather handily you can download an evaluation copy of the Starwind Enterprise Edition from here I [...]
Using the VCE/vBlock concept to aid disaster relief in situations like the Haiti Earthquake
Posted by on January 16, 2010
Seeing the tragic events of the last couple of days in Haiti played out on the news spurred me into evolving some thinking that I had been working on, the sheer scale of infrastructure destruction left by the earthquake in Haiti is making it hard to get relief distributed via road, so airlifting and [...]
It’s voting time..
Posted by on January 4, 2010
Eric Siebert runs vsphere-land.com which is a handy site listing popular blogs about vSphere; I’ve been on the list for a while but Eric is running a poll to determine the top 25 virtualization bloggers. if you are feeling generous towards this site *cough* you may find this link useful if it helps to [...]
It’s 2010 Your Usergoup and the blogsphere.. need you!
Posted by on January 4, 2010
Ok – it’s new year’s resolution time – how about this one.. User groups (and blogs, in a less face-face manner) are an excellent way to meet like minded tech people in an informal setting and are a useful way to get information about how other people are doing things and current real-world trends/best [...]
